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Writing on Conservation

Shortlist 2024

Nature’s Ghosts

The World We Lost And How To Bring It Back

By Sophie Yeo

Nature’s Ghosts examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity. Uncovering the stories of those who shaped the landscapes, Sophie explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth and reconstructs, in stunning detail, the landscapes we have lost.

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About Sophie Yeo

Sophie Yeo is a writer and journalist based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She has written about nature and climate change for publications including the Washington Post, the Guardian and BBC Future. She is also the founder and editor of Inkcap Journal, a publication focusing on conservation in Britain, which won the Press Gazette Newsletter of the Year award in 2022.