Conservation: Clawback time
Here in the UK, the air we breathe is mostly cleaner, many once polluted rivers have more healthy fish and insect populations, we are recycling more, and political engagement with environmental issues has never been stronger. All this, and a whole lot more, happened because of determined environmental work by organisations and individuals going back over decades. But this is just the start of what's needed, writes Tony Juniper in The Guardian as he steps down after two decades as director of Friends of The Earth.