It’s no secret that children now do not play out as much as they once did and that those who do never roam as far as their parents or grandparents did when they were young. Increased levels of traffic, fears of stranger danger and lack of access to quality green spaces mean many parents are reluctant to let their children play outside. On top of this, a lot of play involves TV screens and video games. As a result, for many, the natural world seems to exist entirely separately from the urban world they are growing up in. It introduces some worrying questions – if children now have no connection to the environment, who will care about nature in the future? Who will protect it?