Hope

Back from the dead: the ‘zombie’ ponds repumping nature into Essex farmland
A conservation project is helping identify and restore wildlife-rich sites previously degraded and dried up

Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’.
Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania’s Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem – and local farmers’ profits

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria