Happy doing what he loves...
This article first appeared in New Scientist.
Ray Mears has inspired millions around the world with his television programmes about bushcraft. The self-taught, self-deprecating Mears is an optimist who would like people to feel confident that they could survive in the wild. Even so, he doesn’t think most people would make it through a global climate crisis, as he tells Sanjida O’Connell.
You grew up in an urban part of Britain. How did you become interested in wildlife and nature?
The area wasn’t very urban when I was growing up. I was right at the edge of London’s green belt, a place of trees and rare species. I found fungi like morels in spring, and rare plants such as toothworts and wild cherry in the woods. It was only a 20-minute walk to the North Downs. Having all that on my doorstep, how could I not be interested in nature? [..read more..]
