BBC Wildlife Magazine

Conservation groups are not up to the job

ELL DONE MARK FOR YOUR September column on responses to the UK’s biodiversity dilemma (My Way Of Thinking). I have long thought, just like you, that the various nature, environmental and conservation pressure groups have been nowhere near vociferous and hard-hitting enough to do the job they are attempting to do. And as for our politicians, oh dear, what a miserably ineffective lot they have been for far too long. I only hope that your message gets repeated, again and again, in the corridors of power and wherever else the points can be made. And that at

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