I’ve always found it distastefully ironic how urban planners often name their concrete masterpieces after the habitats they bulldoze out of the way to create them. Our dwindling wildflower meadows frequently take the brunt of these developments, which have contributed to 97% of wildflower-rich meadows vanishing since the 1930s, with the remaining ones usually remaining unprotected. One endangered species is the beautiful Snake’s Head Fritillary – a rare wildflower only found naturally in a few floodplain meadows in the UK. To save this plant and countless others, we need to be coaxed out of our concrete and technological wilderness to the original wilderness and rekindle a deep love for nature. We can only dream.
