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Sara Maitland

“Sometimes our concerns about the natural world are  genuinely complex. What is good for one species or habitat may be bad for another. Chucking plastic refuse out of your car window is clearly a bad thing; it’s not always so clear that draining peat moors to erect wind generators is a good thing. And as we struggle with complexity,

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