Our Place by Mark Cocker review – can Britain’s wildlife be saved?

British people have long expressed a love of wild nature and the countryside. So why is much of it being allowed to disappear?Outside a church, a board welcomes visitors to “The Unkempt Churchyard”. Pamphlets in the church describe the wildlife and defend the policy, for there have been complaints. But when Mark Cocker visits the churchyard, he finds the rye-grass monoculture now so familiar in Britain. Even the daisies are missing. A broad-spectrum herbicide has killed them. Traditi