Right to roam campaigners are protesting about thousands of ‘access islands’ of wilderness in England that are surrounded by private land. Outdated countryside access laws need an overhaul.
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Labour has promised to extend access rights enjoyed in Scotland to the rest of Britain.
Piecemeal legislation is easily unpicked, as the recent high court ruling showed.
The recent efforts of countryside access campaigners evoke the Kinder mass trespass of 90 years earlier.
Although some parents may be reluctant to let their children explore their surroundings alone, allowing kids to wander can help build their sense of direction.
A right-to-roam movement has never developed in Canada the way it has in the U.K. Here’s how it could benefit Canadian society as a whole, including reconciliation efforts with the Indigenous.
