The world doesn’t realise quite how much the British fear and hate wildlife. We’ve sold such a false impression of ourselves, with our Attenborough documentaries and our lecturing of the rest of the world on the importance of protecting wildlife. The writer @GeorgeMonbiot once said that for the British, wildlife falls into two categories: *game*, which you pay to kill; and *vermin*, which you pay someone else to kill. This is pretty much how it is. Our attitude towards wildlife is not only shameful, it’s also so silly: Most Brits holiday regularly across the Channel in Europe, staying in places which are full of wildlife, including some big creatures such as wolves and wild horses and bears which they don’t even notice while they’re there. We Brits really need a reset of our relationship with the natural world. It’s not as scary as we think it is!