The Guardian | 20 May 2024 | Rebecca Tamás
"These spaces are crucial for our wellbeing, but cash-strapped councils are being forced to treat them as revenue earners"
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"As we confront a worsening climate crisis, it has never been more important for people to connect with nature, to learn to love it and recognise its benefits, so that they will want to protect it. Yet in the UK, one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, it is getting harder and harder to forge vital connections with our planet."