Anne Geraghty

Born in 1949, my wildlife-filled childhood is now lost | Letters

I watched hedgehogs, foxes, rabbits, hares, butterflies and weasels, writes Anne Geraghty. I feel privileged but unutterably sadAmy-Jane Beer describes witnessing “a devastating demonstration of what we’ve lost” in Britain during her visit to Biebrza marshes, Poland, (Country diary, 26 May).I was born in 1949 and remember a childhood full of moths flying around every streetlight, the dawn chorus waking us even in cities, sitting in fields full of wildflowers, watching hedgehogs, foxes,...