Update and Request
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,…
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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…
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…
Guest Blog: More Meadows by Dan Smith
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…
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 When you’re…
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…
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…
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…
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…