Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Boots-in-the-mud Understanding?

Governments and businesses are enthusiastically embracing Artificial Intelligence for conservation and land management... is it all for the best?

Litter Louts. The public scourge on the countryside.

Public access to the countryside is a contentious issue with littering often touted as a major concern. But is that really fair?

Blending utility and art: the side by side

A brief discussion about the joy of the side by side

Left to Labour Alone: How the NHS Is Failing Rural Mothers

As I near the end of my pregnancy in rural Devon, the promised choice of a home birth has slipped away. Behind my story is a wider crisis: maternity care in the countryside is collapsing and thousands of women are being left behind.

How to get rich while failing

We can all agree that black grouse conservation is vital. We all know what to do. Why can't we do it? Why does all the money go to those who won't do what what needs to be done?

Rewilding or Ruin: Who Knows Best, Nature or Humans?

A call for a good discussion

Tyre Trouble, Land Rover Loyalty, and Countryside Rules

They come with curious rituals and are physically and metaphorically painful to drive and own. Yet they inspire a kind of emotionally loyalty rarely found with inanimate objects. Is the old Landrover the best worst car ever made?

Pretty In Pink? Not In My Parish

From one single plant, to a sea of pink, Himalayan balsam is spreading at speed, and (unfortunately) its rather good at what it does.

Lapwing hopes lie in the lap of the Gods

With species such a lapwing and curlew closer than ever to extinction, why are the growing number of voices telling us to use targeted lethal predator control still being ignored?

Paralysis

What one burned out West Sussex hotel tells you about how Britain is run.

It's time to shock, literally. Reading this could save a life...

Do you know how far away your nearest defibrillator is?

Broken men, milkshakes, and the night that sycamore fell

The vandalism at Sycamore Gap was carried out by broken men in a broken countryside and much of what followed was complete madness