Report Advocates: Hospital Grounds and Pocket Parks

report advocates: Other suggestions include turning 20% of Britain into national parks and helping farmers devote 15% of their land to nature, according to The Guardian. The report advocates for more green spaces in cities through the rewilding of hospital grounds, funded by car parking charges, and the creation of pocket parks to ensure no home is more than 1km from a wild green space. The recommendations set out in A New Deal for Nature are designed to protect wildlife and put biodiversity at the centre of government policy. The report was commissioned by Caroline Lucas, the Green party candidate for Brighton Pavilion, and produced by conservationists and nature writers including Patrick Barkham, who writes for the Guardian on natural history, Mark Cocker, Jake Fiennes, Jeremy Mynott and Helen Smith. Other species have rights to exist in our country and we are under a moral obligation to sustain them. We need to protect nature to stand any chance of tackling climate chaos Caroline Lucas Read more Cocker, an author and naturalist, said We don't believe for one moment that it's the last word on the future of nature in Britain, but we hope it's a start, a way of thinking hereafter and hopefully in perpetuity about life in these islands and what has to change. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.