BBC Wildlife Magazine

MARK CARWARDINE

YOU COULDN’T MAKE IT UP. THE world faces a double planetary crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss, yet the British government recently launched new legislation to crackdown on (some would say annihilate) peaceful protests about these urgent environmental issues.

Two new laws (the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023) give the authorities nearly total discretion

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