BBC Wildlife Magazine

GILLIAN BURKE

“WE CAN BE PASSIONATE ABOUT protecting nature but all the passion in the world won’t change a thing if the law doesn’t reflect a need to protect the environment. “Law is a technical subject [and] about reason – argument, logic, facts and evidence are its daily bread and butter,” writes Conor Gearty, a human rights lawyer and lecturer at the London School of Economics. If

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