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Environment

Article

How citizen naturalists use Slow Ways to survey wildlife

What if people walking Slow Ways routes used these pathways as wildlife transects across the country: recording wildlife as they walk and contributing invaluable data to inform the regeneration of our country’s flora and fauna?
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Article

Dartmoor and you: land access rights around the UK

The right to wild camp has been lost on Dartmoor, or rather, the High Court has decreed, we never had it in the first place. Previously known as the only part of England where wild camping was allowed, on 13th January it was decreed that the 1985 Dartmoor Commons act only allowed users to pass through, not stay overnight in, Devon's largest National Park.
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Debate

For and against spring forward and fall back: the British Summer Time debate

Slow Ways editor Tom weighs up the reasons for and against the clocks changing and reflects on what these changes means for walkers
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Environment

“Walking not only helps you feel alive, it saves lives.” It’s Earth Overshoot Day, time to get walking

As a planet we are not living within our means, and today is this year's date that humanity has used all the biological resources the Earth is able to regenerate for 2022
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