Does direct action still have a place in the fight for climate change when the most urgent conservation battles are being fought in boardrooms? <\/p>
Conservation is evolving like crazy. Make no mistake \u2013 we still need to protect habitats and save species. Without traditional conservation, with its relatively moderate, steadfast way of doing things, the world\u2019s wildlife and wild places would be disappearing even faster than they are already.<\/p>\n
But anyone who believes that saving a wildflower meadow here, or protecting a hen harrier there, is the answer to all our problems is out of touch with the realities of our rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, many of the most urgent and important conservation battles are being fought in boardrooms and shareholder meetings. Rapid, large-scale environmental threats are forcing conservationists to consider more innovative \u2013 and often controversial \u2013 tactics. This is why Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Just Stop Oil and other more radical, hard-core environmental groups are popping up thick and fast. They are filling the gap being left by some of the more traditional conservation groups.<\/p>\n