Some of you will have noticed this website has been very quiet for a while. The reason for this is that I have been limited in my capacity to write anything, due to a neurological problem called Chronic Vestibular Migraine, also know as Migrainous Vertigo or Migraine Associated Vertigo. I’ve actually had it for coming […]
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Guest Blog by Sarah Gillespie. “Art reminds us that we belong here.”
I met artist Sarah Gillespie at last year’s New Networks for Nature conference in Bath. Sarah uses the Mezzotint method, to create exquisite artwork of British Moths and other species. Mezzotint is a method of engraving, creating an image on a copper plate, using a fine-toothed tool called a rocker, which originated in the 17th […]
National Meadows Day 2021: A Tale of Two Meadows
Wildflower Meadows have their day in the sun today, on National Meadows Day. National Meadows Day is a new thing, just a few years old, but it seems to have captured the public’s imagination and rightly so. Because Wildflower Meadows encapsulate a beautiful coming together, of people and nature, creating something sublime, which everyone can […]
Guest Blog: More Meadows by Dan Smith
Haymaking Chagfarm Dartmoor © Chris Chapman 2019 (1) After the last 12 months, let’s look for positives. Has the pandemic helped us develop effective ways to conserve nature and engage people with the natural world? Perhaps a growing movement of wildflower meadow-makers in Devon, using the umbrella name ‘More Meadows’ has achieved this, with a […]
guest blog by Trevor Parsons: The power of Nature Photography.
Nature and photography mean so much to me, you see it was what got me through my second mental breakdown, it gave me a reason to get out of bed in the morning. My last breakdown was 2013/2014. When you’re going through a breakdown, there’s no off switch in your head. What I found when […]
National Meadow Day: Poundbury Wildflower Meadows
It’s National Meadows Day today and People Need Nature is celebrating with news of a project on which we working, in partnership with the Duchy of Cornwall, at their Poundbury development in Dorset. Poundbury Great Field is a large open space on the boundary where the new development at Poundbury meets the existing edge of […]
Nature can help us through these dark times: guest blog by Matthew Shaw
This morning I woke up very early, we had a family birthday to celebrate, and there are still things worth celebrating. Not that it felt that way before the dawn. Especially not if you looked at the news, listened to the radio or opened a news app. A few hours later, I found myself sitting […]
PNN Annual Report 2018/19
One of the things about having Charitable Status is that the law requires all charities (or rather, strictly speaking, Charitable incorporated Organisations – which is the legal structure that PNN chose when it was founded) to produce an Annual Report and accounts. Some Charities just publish their accounts and a very brief summary (or even […]
National Meadows Day 2019
For National Meadows day we are releasing this short film inspired by our meadow soundscape. Please take a look.
Farmland Tax report published
Farmland Tax Breaks revealed. Today People Need Nature publishes its latest report, investigating the tax system and how it affects farmland. “Where there’s muck there’s brass: revealing the billions hidden in farmland tax shelters” lays out the many, varied, and some frankly bizarre tax breaks available to farmers and landowners. And we argue that these […]