Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You

Charlotte Maberly reviews a new book that argues that it is only by including human beings in nature that we can preserve it

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Published in BESHARA MAGAZINE – 21 June 2024

"Hayes and Moses believe that being able to freely explore and interact with the countryside is the first step in rebuilding this different relationship with nature. They acknowledge the widely held concern that if people are given free access, they will harm what little nature remains, but maintain that it is more damaging and irrational to expect people to care about, or act on behalf of, something of which they have no direct experience. When people cannot gain their own experiential knowledge of the natural world, they will inevitably perceive it as other, or as irrelevant to them."