Biodiversity and why it is the future

King Charles III has spoken passionately about biodiversity loss over many years.

At last year’s Cop 15 UN Biodiversity Conference he gave an opening speech in which he called for a price to be placed on the value of nature.

In a recorded video message, he said that the world must put nature at the heart of our economy because the “wellbeing and livelihoods of future generations depend on us preserving the biodiversity that still exists.” 

We agree.

Climate change, habitat loss and biodiversity are some of the most important things we should be thinking about. We need good leadership to drive it, something that’s not coming from the political arena with its talk of awarding new licenses for North Sea oil and gas and exploring fracking over renewable energy.

We need to take a 21st century view to our future and stop looking backwards. We must be brave and innovative if we want to make a difference.

At Land Studio, we champion a naturalistic landscape style and there’s lots we can all do to make a difference.

We want to see more councils and landowners addressing the issue on their managed estates by putting biodiversity at the heart of their management practices through the creation of wildflower meadows, wetlands, woodlands and hedgerows.

Let’s overturn the traditional idea of our parks and open spaces with mown grass, beds of annuals and a few ornamental trees and create parks of the future with texture, movement, height and colourful planting coming from a bio-diverse range of trees, shrubs and wildflower meadows.

Only when we start to make these changes will we have a greater understanding of the importance of nature and the impact it can have on climate change and how we live our lives.