I am old , and I can remember hayfields of numerous different species of butterflies. It would take your breath away to see them now ! Over decades the decline in numbers of plants, insects, amphibians and reptiles has been heartbreaking. . If Homo sapiens is to survive we must address this problem NOW or it’ll be too late .

Where will we be when there are no insects to pollinate our crops, when floods and wildfires become the norm ?

There is very little time left to persuade the powers that be to help , to stop human greed and to point out that one can’t eat money !

All of it! We are part of nature, not detached onlookers. If nature goes we go. We need to nurture the complex web of systems that sustain us, recognise that we have all exploited parts of it without realising, not blame others but get on with changing the worldview we all held that led to the crisis. Then not only will nature be restored but we will too.

Nature should be left to itself we should not interfere

People are part of Nature !

I’m an old woman now and it breaks my heart to have witnessed the decline in so many species over several decades. Gone are the verdantly meadows of my childhood which were full of so many butterflies, so many different kinds. Bye bye starlings and swallows nesting under the eaves, frogs where have you gone ?

Humans tend to kid themselves that everything will be all right when the truth is we need to act NOW - or rather yesterday if the human race is going to survive on this planet. No more empty promises about “ by 2030 we will, or by 2050 this and that will happen “

It will be too late when people finally realise you can’t eat money !

Space for nature. More habitats and wildlife corridors and allow nature to regenerate and away from our prying eyes too!

We need to encourage wildlife networks where we live within and in balance with nature not forcing nature to live around us. Moderate expectation, demand and population. Possible?

By destroying the fauna and flora, we destroy the natural environment we need to survive, we need to understand we are destroying the future of mankind on this planet

Even now, after years of decline, there are so many wonderful aspects of nature to be seen in the UK. We just have to open our eyes, minds and hearts. A garden compost heap may well attract coppery slow worms, a garden pond will bring frogs, newts and dragonflies, and a pile of old timber all sorts of beetles etc. Each of us who can needs to make a home for nature, stop using pesticides and herbicides and give nature the chance to recover. If we all do something we have the power to change things.

Waiting after the long winter to see tiny green buds appearing on trees fills me with hope. To see those fresh verdant leaves fills my heart with joy. I stop to see birds and listen to their songs. Watch the squirrels dash up trunks. Autumn with its array of colour and the eventual dropping of leaves and watching them fall to the ground. Seeing the bare branches of winter and the true shape of each tree. Trees provide homes and food for all sorts of creatures and shade for us humans on sunny days. What’s better than spreading a rug under a tree with a picnic and lying back looking up through the branches to the sunlight dancing through the leaves. A windy day when trees sway majestically.

Nature is beautiful a wonderful part of our world all nature animals birds the natural part of our world must be protected

Everyone needs to stop and look and listen outside. I haven’t been very well this week and today was the first time I had been in the garden. Greeted as soon I stepped out by robins, blue and great tits chirping as though they were delighted to see me again. Even the pigeons were cooing. My azalea plant, which my grandson bought me last year, had loads of buds on it and I felt on top of the world. What would life be if we didn’t have all of these wonderful things around us? Leave these beautiful places alone please. Stop, look and listen to the natural world around us before is is too late.

As a small hill farmer in Wales, I love seeing half of our farm as hay meadows in the Summer. This can only be achieved by correct grazing. Sheep in the Winter and Spring and cows in the Summer and Autumn.

I love feeling connected to nature and the wonder of its simplicity. The verve of spring and every shade of green, the smell of the land after rain and the rolling sumptuousness of the English countryside. It’s home.

I have a deep love for nature and have long been worried about the disappearance of many insects and pollinators .

Just to be with nature and the beauty of it is amazing, facinating and inspiring. To lose it would be to lose ourselves.

The SSSI River Lugg behind my house already suffering from phosphate pollution; sewage pollution, farming pollution, chicken shed consequential pollution. Need to preserve not abuse these precious places.

Wildflowers give me joy too!

I love nature trees, birds, and flowers. animals. I would not like to live in a world without God's wonderful nature. Nature makes me happy.

This is one easy way everyone can make a little bit of difference, we could also encourage people to remove those horrible plastic lawns and not tarmac over front gardens

Do you plan to install IOT devices to help monitoring the trees’ health, deforestation issues etc?

i love how nature responds to neglect. I flew to Australia to vist my daughter and her family. for a month.When I got back to the UK my garden (which is quite big) was coved in wildflowers and nettles. I’ve always had a wild flower area at the back of the garden, but this was everywhere’. t first I thought “how am I going to clear up this mess”. Then I thought I “ I’m not going to do anything “ because looking round at the nettles I could see hundreds of caterpillars. Eventually they turned into great whites and small tortoiseshell butterflies.. I would love to see places like where having a few places not completely tidy.is encouraged.

The UK is a place of beautiful nature which is vital for our present and future. We need it for our food, health and we guard it for future generations

I love the way we still have access to the countryside because of the well marked foot paths

The increase of birds of prey on the South downs

I have been concerned about the attitudes of humans towards the natural world since my teens. I am now 75. To me, it has always been clear that the human race needs to change its way of thinking. We humans must control our numbers. We don’t need more houses covering the earth in concrete, we need less people. Humans must stop believing we are sacred and other species are beneath us. Every species on earth is sacred and speciesism must stop. Man’s thinking must change, we must stop using other animals as tools, experimenting on them, using them as ‘entertainment’ and killing them. Attitudes must change.

Without the beauty of nature surrounding us there is no point in living. Human life is not sustainable if the natural world is destroyed

What I used to love about nature in the U.K. growing up in the 1950/60s is fast disappearing! Fields full of wild flowers and various insects, woodlands and hedgerows full of birds. Living in an area of Wales where there are no immediate agricultural fields using insecticide, I still appalled by the scarcity of insects. Butterflies have become rare, even the once numerous migratory warblers have decreased in number, and I haven’t heard a ceti for years.

Going on a walk near a river, or across the fields and blowing the mental cobwebs away. Watching birds feeding at the local nature reserve and observing the changing colours in the hedgerows throughout the seasons. I love to see bees busy collecting pollen and a family of great tots building their nest in the nest box in my garden. Please help protect it!

Nature is in trouble worldwide, and it’s down largely to the greed of multinational corporations who continually rape the land and the oceans.
It’s very difficult to stop them as many of the world’s leaders are complicit in thiese actions.
So all we can do is look after our own little bits of the planet and nurture the local flora and fauna while supporting the large environmentally friendly NCOs who have the chance of changing the way governments and corporations think.

Luigi, our family dog and I, go for a walk in the countryside every morning. I take robin feed with me & pop it on a post. A family of all male robins greet me and come down to feed. I don’t think I am the only person feeding them and they are thriving. I would hate to think of any species disappearing, least of all, these lovely robins. I have some amazing photos of them.

I love the trees, clear gurgling rivers, the wild flowers and plants, the buzzing of pollinators, the birds singing, the squirrels and deer. It's all so beautiful.

I love the complexity and detail in our landscape. From hedgerows to canals and rivers and the spectacular nature of our coastline. The changing seasons each have their own character and diversity. The spaces of nature belong to us all. I see myself as a guardian or custodian of the earth not a consumer of it.

I love nature because it helps my mood abs mental health. I love woodlands, coastlines, sea, I love wild flowers, bees, all types of birds, I am at my happiest walking through meadows and woodland, regardless of the weather or season. I love to be close to the earth. I’m a tree hugger, I talk to trees and plants and all that makes up our beautiful country. I don’t want us to loose another blade of grass, insect, bird or tree or plant.

I love our hills, mountains and lakes. Standing amongst our hills abs mountains, I feel in oar of their size and majesty, makes me realise how small I am. We can’t take any of this from our future generations

I really enjoy helping, in a small way, to try to develop new ways of farming which will help the environment by carrying out butterfly surveys at RSPB Hope Farm.

I love wild flowers and insects and. Would like to see the verges left to grow appary for just one mower width to keep the vegetation actually spilling on to the road

Sound of songbirds

Who are these people who think they can ride roughshod over nature with no consequences. They may live to tell the tale, but their children and grandchildren will be cursing them.

I have been surrounded all my life by nature. The now nature reserve that I love and enjoy was once fields of horses and cattle. Now its mostly housing estates. A big thank you to the Shropshire Wildlife Trust, local council and businesses that have helped to save some of this beautiful area by making it a nature reserve, without their help it would of disappeared years ago. All my family enjoy walking around the lake and wooded areas nature spotting and just being free to put life's pressures behind us for a while. It would break my heart to see this area disappear as it would for all the UK special places! We need nature more than ever and nature needs and deserves our help!

My whole housing estate is a desert the expression ‘common garden bird’ no longer exists this week trees are being pulled down in my road for no reason I have no birds coming to my bird feeders since a hawk moved into the area there were only 5 sparrows anyway! Now they’re gone! The pleasure I used to get from my tiny garden is now gone, I used to feed the feral doves but the neighbours have stopped me from doing that! When was the last time you saw a dirty windscreen? There’s no insects left! No insects = no little birds or reptiles or bats, if they go there’s no food for prey birds and now they’ve brought prey birds back they’re busy hoovering up what few birds they are! It’s all a mess!

This will provide access for people doing leisure exercise, will help fight climate change and more biodiversity

Yes, we are incredibly fortunate in this country to have so much diversity in a small country.

As a sufferer of anxiety, it is the beautiful countryside around me that helps me escape the suffocating thoughts & feelings. I can’t imagine a world without our beautiful woodlands, parks, wildlife … We should be preserving the future of our planet & its inhabitants … what kind of future will there be for future generations with all the habitats destroyed. We have eyes to see & ears to listen …. but who wants to live in a concrete jungle with no birdsong . The government are a disgrace

We are supposedly at the top end of the eco-system's ladder but we are removing the base rungs systematically & it will bring us crashing down. When I go out and with friends survey our butterflies & moths, birds, dragonflies etc I feel assured that those rungs are in place - but they are not as so many species decline in number and yesterday's commonplace beauty of a Small Copper or a Barn Owl becomes today's scarcity & tomorrow's rarity. We should not permit this government & private enterprise - or any government the power & authority to destroy rather than to conserve and enhance.

Humans are the top of the global food chain, we are destroying soils, habitats and species that support our physical and mental health. Covid lockdowns demonstrated how important biodiversity is to our health and ultimate survival. It’s not just our duty to protect nature it’s our obligation to safeguard the wellbeing of future generations

Human survival depends on a healthy biodiverse environment. Traditional communities understand this but sadly our government doesn’t.

We are currently suffering life changing situations which can be best dealt with by allowing more people to benefit from our beautiful countryside and rivers. Access will allow those suffering stress and depression to relax.

Nature first in all policies from Whitehall to local councils. The rich to not keep destroying nature because they have money to do what they want. An end to Space, Arctic and Antarctic tourism.

Everyone needs to be reminded of the importance of landscape and nature in this busy world that we r rushing about in. Appreciate that nature means the continuence of life for all of us. No insects means no pollination means no plants means no food means no life.

Children and young people should be encoursyto spend more time outside. Organisations such as the rspb should focus on this and maintaining ecosystems rather than money making money through festival type events. This will en outage wildlife to stay where it is and help hound people understand it’s importance

I havebeen fascinated by nature since 1947 when fields had headlands and ddt was not used. i have seen a slow deterioration since mid 20th century, accelerating at a disturbing rate in this one. Lately, many more people are becoming concerned but will have to fight against greed and stupidity and the misguided and uncaring approach of many governments including ours. Despite my pessimism I hope the next few generations will effect a change and rescue a desperate situation.

I would miss the beautiful birds. Although not (yet) a 'birder' I am fascinated by how beautiful each tiny or large bird species is and the way that they just go about their little lives - temporarily living in Kenya means I have also seen some TRULY amazingly beautiful birds...

I love nature to walk be part of it. It heals me as I watch buzzards and kites exicute their dances in the sky. The busy field mice rustling the fallen leaves. Busy squirrels frantic in the shopping expeditions. Gentle bows swaying in the breeze and inhaling the smell of fresh grass and hay. Listening to waters rippling along a brook. Put it on the curriculum at school teach how precious it all is. It's not something you buy on line or at tesco

Man is part of Nature too. It is possible to create balance and still provide mankind with what he needs to live. True that uncaring people and companies have caused havoc to our landscape, but it is not totally lost. Practicality must overrule emotions; the best plans are needed and must be implemented by people with the proper scientific skillsets rather than dreamers , "politicians" and "green" activists. Nature is hugely adaptable; far stronger than most people imagine. We need primarily to stop flooding Britain with economically useless people, all demanding to be housed and fed. Fossil fuels are hated by many, BUT be very careful before condemnation, the new tech isn't up to scratch!

We have diverse species and ecosystems that are declining, such as hedgehogs and insects. Woodlands, hedgerows and wildflower meadows are being destroyed for housing and roads.

The trouble is basic NO ONE GETS PAID TO LEAVE NATURE ALONE!!! Instead of leaving the corners of a development alone and just clearing where they’re building, someone gets paid to clear it, and I don’t know which councillor is related to the person who keeps felling all the beautiful mature trees but it STINKS of corruption in this council!! Someone is paid to clear and someone else paid to provide the so-called replacement trees. Behind the station in Leamington there’s a whole row of saplings dead, no one watered them after planting, and there’s four birch tree saplings that have been sawn in half for some strange reason!

The government must stop the use of toxic pesticides before any more wildlife is destroyed.

Nature is so beautiful and incredible and I do not understand how we place it as such great risk. Lucky enough to grow up in Cornwall with its staggering beauty and seas. Fortunate enough to live in East Sussex with an ancient woodland landscape, ghylls, access to the South Downs and all its stunning beauty. Why does our beautiful rural landscape and nature have to fight for survival against a juggernaut of development and local communities trodden down defending against mass development. BNG needs to be vastly improved limking corridors for nature recovery and smaller scale in keeping development decided by EACH parish not dictated. we have to be guardians with empathy for wildlife

Having been born around 70 years ago I have loved nature, our British woods, countryside and birds and wildilfe all my life. It is so sad to see as our population has massively increased over the years our wildlife and wild places have massivley decreased. It is now time to put nature conservation first and preserve our wildlife for future generations. Our bird species have taken a huge hit, as have hedgehogs and many other species. I believe therefore we must put a stop to uncontrolled immigration which puts pressure on housing and we must stop building houses that damage wildlife and the environment. Protecting Britain's nature must take president over damaging development.

I love walking in the countryside amongst the flowers and the feeling of calm and wonder that it brings me.

The natural world is where the human race first came from and to turn our backs on it will kill it along with ourselves.

What worries me is that the things I love are so rapidly disappearing locally. Flights of hundreds of jackdaws swirling above our house now in tens. Annual butterfly count down to FIVE. A dozen skylarks now two or three.

I've been fighting to stop mowing in peak Butterfly season for six years. At last there is light and and a chance to reverse the damage

It wouldn’t be worth living in a world without its wild places.
Our mental and physical health is gradually disintegrating as we plough relentlessly on our selfish trajectory.

I couldn’t live in a tree-less place. I’m not so keen on conifers, but I love the changing look of trees over a year. And one of my favourite sounds is that of the wind in trees.

Governments role primarily is to provide security in all aspects , to maintain and enhance ALL life

I'd miss the fresh air clean water, and the companionship of trees and Nature

Thank you for your work - I wish you much success but at 95 there's not much I can help.

All of it! I couldn't live without nature.

Exactly. It's the diversity of nature that keeps us alive and grounded. It inspires us and teaches us, cares for us and helps us think.

The landscapes, the changing seasons, how good it is for mental health to be outdoors and at one with nature.

We must do all we can to stop the tory government from allowing the use of nicotinoids as insecticides. There is enough of a problem with a shortage of bees and without bees we have no fruits in our farms and gardens.

I as an artist love ❤️ nature and it’s beauty and spiritual feeling it gives to our world

God and all his creation so beautiful and delicate preserve it all and appreciate it as without it all we cannot feel being near to him