Fingers crossed. Amid a declining, even disintegrating, natural world, Britain should be about to complete its most spectacular snatch of triumph from wildlife disaster. It is already a rare success story – and one in which the Observer has played a part.
Experts at a Unesco conference opening in Delhi today are expected to grant conservation’s highest accolade, world heritage status, to Scotland’s boggy but beautiful Flow Country. Yet, not so long ago, this unique ecosystem, much the biggest and finest of its kind globally, was being destroyed by celebrities secretly avoiding tax.
