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Day 182 ##365DaysWild

King Charles appeared on ITV’s Big Bash today promoting biodiversity.

Seemed appropriate to quote Joel Scott-Halkes is the co-founder of Wild Card.

Taken together, just two Britons – a certain Charles and William Windsor – own and derive a significant share of profits from more than 850,000 acres of land and foreshore

It is an area of land twice the size of Greater London, or about half again bigger than either the Lake District, or Snowdonia (Eryri) national parks.

Royal land is still overwhelmingly a climate heater, not a climate cooler. Little of the royal holdings are treed, or managed for diverse wildlife; instead they are disfigured by grouse shooting and exhausted by livestock farming.

Let’s remember, as discovered by author Guy Shrubsole, that 50% of England is owned by less than 1% of its population).

The keys to our future are held by the unelected.