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People & nature Converting Chimney
Meadows to a nature
Carbon dioxide and land reserve has boosted the
number of ecosystem
Agriculture is responsible for about 8% of the UK’s
total carbon emissions. However, land can also services it offers.
serve as a valuable store of carbon; our nature
reserves alone are estimated to store a minimum (PETER GATHERCOLE)
of 461,000 tonnes of carbon within the soil and
vegetation, with an additional 2046 tonnes
saved every year through work funded by agri-
environment schemes.

Valuing nature
Putting a financial value on nature may seem crude, even
unnatural, but it can help us make the case for a countryside that’s
richer in wildlife, as Head of Conservation, Matt Jackson explains

Adventure, confidence-building, fun: Some ecosystem Learn more about ecosystem services
services are more abstract but no less important. as Karen Haysom and others working
in nature explain how the natural
(MATTHEW ROBERTS) environment enhances our lives through
a series of short films: tinyurl.com/cultural-
8 Wildlife news / April 2017 services; tinyurl.com/provisioning-services and
tinyurl.com/regulating-services