Saturday, 9 October 2021

But Where Will One's Corgis Roam?

Conservationist, Chris Packham, intends to hand in a petition, calling on the UK's Royal Family to agree they will rewild their extensive estates before the COP26 meeting in Glasgow (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/09/chris-packham-asks-royal-family-to-commit-to-rewilding-estates). The Royals are the UK's biggest landowning family, with more than 320,000 hectares of land. This is double the area of Greater London or 1.4% of the entire UK. The Queen and Prince Charles will both in in Glasgow for COP26. The meeting has been described as the world's 'last chance to avert the climate crisis'. Packham maintains that the time for talking is over. Action is needed and he suggests that agreeing to rewild the Royal Estate would send a powerful signal at precisely the right time. Extensive rewilding of Royal lands seems, however, very unlikely. It might damage the sales of Charles' Duchy Originals from 'his' Cornish estate.

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