It was so heartening to read Patrick Barkham’s report (29 December) on Sir David Attenborough’s latest TV documentary, Wild London. For the entirety of my life, Sir David has been a source of inspiration.
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds,” the late American ecologist Aldo Leopold once wrote. For many of us who work daily in conservation and nature recovery, these words sadly ring true, and it can sometimes be hard to find the energy to stay positive.
