I spend a lot of my time trying to convince businesses that they are part of the mosaic that makes up the ecological networks that run up and down and all across our country. Of course, we don't have nearly enough networks and that is what I am so passionate about working with businesses who quite often own car parks, verges, roofs and driveways that could all be used to benefit wildlife.
Most of this work is in urban areas but many people involved in conservation still think of biodiversity as being only associated with the countryside.
At a time when we want to get the public behind the biodiversity agenda and hold the decision makers to account, we really need to be thinking urban and not rural.
Many more of us now live in large towns and cities than live in rural areas. Whether we like it or not our economy is driven by the people that work in cities and our biggest companies choose to set up business in towns and cities.
In short, cities appear to hold the most influence and the most cash. And biodiversity needs both.
If we are to tackle the biodiversity challenge on a 'landscape scale' then we need to engage the population of the whole landscape, wherever they are.
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