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Guardian photographers travelled across the country to capture the work of nature lovers and conservationists. They came back with heritage oats, urban oases and the sadness of storm-ripped trees
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Rewilders join forces
From left: Val Green, Eti Meacock with her mother Dorette Engi and Oliver Walker next to a beaver pond on Eti and Dorette’s Broadridge Farm, featured in our report on the UK’s first cluster rewilding project, near Tiverton in Devon.
Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian
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Storm damage
A ‘veteran’ tree brought down by a storm in Richmond Park, London. Three people talked about the loss of their favourite trees when a hat-trick of storms – Dudley, Eunice and Franklin – hit in February.
Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
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Beeched
Brian McGhie with the huge beech that fell in Gernon Bushes nature reserve in Epping, Essex. He described it as ‘a great loss’.
Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
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Reclaiming roads
More flowers, fewer cars: Lynne Friedli (second left), gardening with neighbour Helena Farstad and helpers Hennie Farstad McKeown, Roy Hanson, Jesse Hanson and Ebba Farstad McKeown. They have created a ‘parklet’ on a parking space in their street in Islington, London.
Photograph: Urszula Soltys/The Guardian
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Boaticulture
Ian Winn used a boat to transform the parking space outside his home in Ilfracombe, North Devon.
Photograph: Jim Wileman/The Guardian
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God’s own gardens
Deborah Colvin, churchwarden at St James’s Piccadilly in London, encourages visitors to take a closer look at the flora and fauna flourishing in the churchyard with the help of powerful magnifying glasses.
Photograph: Deborah Colvin
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Monumental shift
The churchyard at St Pancras Church in Plymouth, part of the Living Churchyards project. A growing green church movement is helping these often untouched havens of biodiversity thrive.
Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian
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Spotting orchids
Leif Bersweden, a botanist and author of Where the Wildflowers Grow, examines a common spotted orchid at Noar Hill nature reserve in Alton, Hampshire. He describes rare orchids as being ‘like stroppy teenagers’.
Photograph: Peter Flude/The Guardian
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Welcome roam
Photographer Alexander Turner captured the moment bison returned to the wild in the UK for the first time in more than 1,000 years, with their release into Blean Woods in Kent. One of the bison later gave birth to a bouncing baby bison.
Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian
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‘You’ve got to remove every rat’
Jaclyn Pearson, islands and biosecurity officer for the RSPB, arrives on Round Island in the Scilly Isles on a mission to rid it of invasive rats.
Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian
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Run, rats
Volunteers venture out to begin checking for signs of rats on Round Island and to top up bait stations.
Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian
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‘I feel I’ve made a mark’
Retired salesman John Stimpson was so moved by the cries of birds unable to find nests, he decided to act. He has now built homes for 60,000 swifts in the UK.
Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian
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Rewilders in chief
Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree, ‘the king and queen of rewilding’ and owners of the Knepp estate, pictured with old wooden fencing pulled out of hedgerows. The couple’s recent focus is regenerative agriculture, which will supply food to a new farm shop and cafe.
Photograph: Peter Flude/The Guardian
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‘Search for the holy grain’
Gerald Miles holds a sheaf of freshly cut black oats. The 74-year-old farmer is helping to bring back the once common black oats of Wales.
Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian
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Bringing in the sheaves
Gerald Miles with other members of the Llafur Ni group, which is bringing heritage crops back.
Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian
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London’s blooming gardens
Sasha Diamond tends to flowers in her garden, which backs on to South Tottenham rail station. Across London, tube and bus stations have been turned into havens for plants and trees, and even fruit and veg.
Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
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Green travel
A once disused space at Goodge Street station has become an oasis, thanks to the green-fingered work of Transport for London staff.
Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
