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Seminar followed by Q&A and drinks – attend in person or join online – all welcome
Abstract: Nature is in crisis in England; a country where half the land is owned by less than 1% of the population. Landowners often like to style themselves as stewards of the earth, but how can we ensure this isn’t just greenwash? Can we design better policies to hold the biggest landowners to account for how they treat habitats and wildlife? This talk, drawing on Guy Shrubsole’s latest book The Lie of the Land, will look at several proposals for making landownership more accountable and transparent: from the forthcoming Land Use Strategy and the government’s new National Estate for Nature group, to Community Right to Buy and other initiatives to democratise decision-making over land use.
Biography: Guy Shrubsole is an environmental campaigner and author of The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), and Who Owns England? (2019). He has twice won the Wainwright Prize for writing on conservation; worked for Friends of the Earth, Rewilding Britain, and DEFRA; and co-founded the Right to Roam campaign.
