Source: Positive News
Protesters delivered a radical manifesto, co-edited by the broadcaster Chris Packham, to Downing Street. The document calls for an end to the “war on wildlife”
‘Walk for the missing millions’ was the rallying cry, and thousands answered. The millions in question are the birds, animals and other wildlife to have disappeared in recent decades following the decline of more than half of British species.
In what organisers called a ‘natural revolution’, the People’s Walk for Wildlife on Saturday (22 September) began in Hyde Park and progressed to Whitehall. Demonstrators – many dressed as foxes, badgers and other species – made their way through the rain to a soundtrack of digital birdsong. After a prompt from organisers, hundreds of people played it through their phones.
Protesters including Billy Bragg delivered a radical manifesto, co-edited by the broadcaster Chris Packham, to Downing Street. The document makes a series of recommendations, including twinning primary schools with farms to help children understand food production, banning driven grouse shooting, making it illegal to dredge for scallops and banning Scottish seal culling.
“I believe that conservation and environmental care should be wholly independent from any party politics” wrote Packham in the manifesto’s foreword. “I believe we need a greater political consensus on what needs to be done for nature – saying ‘we care’ is not…
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