Why nature? 

Isn’t it obvious? People generally do value the natural world. Whatever it means to them – whether their livelihood depends on it or it’s a stroll in the forest, a local park or garden or climbing Mount Everest, a dip in the sea, local lake or river, white-water rafting, snorkelling or diving a coral reef – few people can say that nature means nothing to them (even before we go into its rather useful capacity to provide the air we breathe, food we eat, water we need to survive and so on…)

So, if people do value nature, how is it that we are, on a global scale –  there is no nice way to put this – trashing it and watching it disappear before our eyes? (we’re losing the diversity and abundance of species at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction event some 65 million years ago…)