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Patrick Barkham

Patrick Barkham writes for the Guardian on natural history. He is the author of Wild Green Wonders, Islander, The Butterfly Isles and Badgerlands

August 2024

  • A hazy, pink and purple sunrise behind electricity pylons in the countryside

    ‘There’ll be no countryside left’: Opposition to pylons puts UK carbon targets at risk

    Infrastructure essential to decarbonise electricity generation by 2030 met with resistance by those affected
  • A chough flying above a field

    Choughs breed in Kent for first time in 200 years

    Unexpected fledging is result of long-term restoration project to bring red-billed birds back to Kent coastline
  • Paul Powlesland standing in nature wearing a multi-coloured jacket

    Environmentalist becomes first juror to swear oath on river water

    Paul Powlesland, the co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, says he considers the River Roding to be sacred

July 2024

  • A peacock butterfly

    Butterflywatch
    Where have all Britain’s garden butterflies gone?

    Despite a decade of wilding, my flowers appear to be hosts of a party to which no guests have turned up
  • Harold's Park

    ‘Really special’: Farm near London to be rewilded to enable new housing in Essex

    Farm north of London to be returned to something like pasture once enjoyed by Anglo-Saxon king

    • ‘Some absolute gems’: £1.5m appeal to save rewilding haven Strawberry Hill

    • ‘He had to be the name on everyone’s lips’: how Adrian Ramsay became East Anglia’s first Green MP

    • Rewilding plan aims to bring majestic white storks to London

June 2024

  • Waveney Valley composite illustration

    Path to power
    Waveney Valley ought to be a Tory heartland. Could angry voters turn it Green?

    In a new constituency where the river ‘is our lifeblood’, people speak of being taken for granted by the Tories
  • Activists hold a banner saying 'No nature, no future'

    Restore Nature Now: thousands to march in London calling for urgent action

    Mainstream groups including National Trust and RSPB will join hunt saboteurs and direct action activists for first time

    • Calls for new dog licences to better control unruly pets in England

    • ‘We sold everything off, even the semen flasks’: the film about the farming couple who struck gold by rewilding

    • My mission? A two-day voyage along the Norfolk coast to deliver potatoes for a chip shop

May 2024

  • A butterfly with charcoal, cream, blue and red wings feeds on a pink flower in a meadow

    Butterflywatch
    Butterflywatch: swallowtail emerges again in Norfolk despite winter floods

    UK’s largest butterfly remains very vulnerable after worst summer since scientific counting began
  • GB. England. Weymouth. 2000.

    ‘All the elements of the classic British seaside holiday’: five unsung beach towns

    Travel writers take a salty, summer saunter through old-fashioned seaside towns that have ‘not yet been Airbnb-brushed out of existence’

    • Court bid to prevent Spurs leasing rewilded London golf course fails

    • The truth about Asian hornets: how terrified should humans and honeybees actually be?

    • Adder girl! Tunnels aim to encourage British snakes to mix and breed

April 2024

  • Land crab in defensive posture

    And now for the pinchline: competition crowns world’s funniest crab joke

  • The Penryn campus

    Exotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in Cornwall

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