By Esther Chilton When I moved to Nottinghamshire three years ago, I’d never heard of Clumber Park and yet it’s National Trust’s most visited site. The Trust acquired it in 1946. When my partner suggested we visit, I was curious to find out what brought people to Clumber, especially as it doesn’t have a […]
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I watched those elephants march across the red dust savanna as if they had an appointment with destiny. I know that I did. That’s why I’m here. But I didn’t realise it until much later. Much, much later.Do you ever have those moments when you think that the hand of fate is doing more than
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The ultimate reason that climate change is of such critical importance to us is that we are quite literally creatures of the climate. Our bodies, our communities, our cultures and our civilisations have all been moulded by the climate. Our entire existence as a species has evolved in response to the shifting climate. A changing
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The past 10,000 years has been an uncharacteristically ‘stable’ period which enabled us to evolve into an agricultural, urban civilisation, and to breed like never before. Our history tells us that stability and sustainability are transient phenomena at best. And that stability now seems to be shifting. The climate made us what we are. It
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