
Our attitudes towards nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved only limited success over the last one hundred years of campaigning. Can conservationists now shake off their insular, disunited...

Our attitudes towards nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved only limited success over the last one hundred years of campaigning. Can conservationists now shake off their insular, disunited...


Describing the history of the British nature conservation movement, this text traces the legislation for bird protection and access to the countryside, the battles against pesticide and pollution, farming and forestry, and the present concerns with global and green issues.