Positive News Magazine Issue 115 2023

Cover story: Rewilding goes guerrilla

Reintroducing lost species into nature-depleted Britain involves navigating a patchwork of laws that can take years. It’s time that we don’t have, say a growing movement of guerrilla rewilders, who are secretly breeding butterflies, birds and beavers, and illegally releasing them across the country. Are they halting the tide of extinction, or doing more harm than good?

Other features include: The new golden age of medicine • Buildings that heal • The mighty power of beans • Saving Britain’s rarest native tree • A Finnish approach to mental healthcare • The fixing factory run by refugees • Rebuilding after an ‘honour’ killing • Charlotte Church’s life lessons

Published in October 2023