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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Can the 'Right to Roam' boost nature connection and restoration?
Description: On this episode of Mongabay's podcast, Rachel Donald speaks with campaigner and activist Jon Moses about the 'right to roam' movement in England which seeks to reclaim common rights to use private and public land to reconnect with nature and repair the damage done from centuries of exclusionary land ownership. In this discussion and the new book Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You he's co-edited with Nick Hayes, Moses recounts the history of land ownership change in England ('enclosure') and why re-establishing a common 'freedom to roam'—a right observed in other nations such as the Czech Republic o...