In photos: Bristol’s climate news – March 2025

The Climate Choir and Wild Card campaigners descended 200-strong on St Paul’s Cathedral on March to demand the church do more to support nature – photo: Andrea Domeniconi

The choral campaigners are calling on the Church of England to commit to rewilding 30 per cent of its 105,000 acre estate by 2030 – photo: Andrea Domiconi

Bernie Munoz Chereau, founder of flourishing Fishponds community garden Herbs Yourself, has written a book based on experience of a year building community at the garden, which she launched at East Bristol Books on March 22 – photo: Herbs Yourself

She says developing the garden has been a powerful way of establishing community and intergenerational relationships, as well as learning from plants, and hopes the book will inspire others to follow suit – photo: Herbs Yourself

UWE Bristol’s Inspire Sustainability team launched a Green Futures card deck featuring 48 diverse role models in a variety of green jobs. Used in a Top Trumps style game, the pack is designed to help children imagine and visualise what sort of environmentally-focused jobs there are out in the world – photo: UWE Bristol

On 12 March, Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership held a roundtable for participants of their Community Climate Action Project’s learning and mentoring programme to get input on their community climate action plans. Photo credit: Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership

Three of the five WECA mayoral candidates attended the launch of Nature Is Lush, a campaign forged by Avon Needs Trees in coalition with other organisations across the region. They planted a Hawthorn, or May tree, to symbolise their commitment to nature should they win the election on May 1 – photo: Alex Turner

Nearly 100 people gathered in solidarity with Patrick Hart, the GP who has been jailed for taking part in a Just Stop Oil climate protest in 2022 – photo: Rob Browne

Hart, who said he took part in order to defend his patients against the damages of climate change, is the first medical professional to be imprisoned in this way – photo: Rob Browne

At a Climate Action Breakfast hosted by Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership, panellists shared tips for communicating climate and nature action – photo: Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership

Thatchers, the family run cider company based in Somerset for 120 years, is planting a new orchard of 13,000 apple trees – photo: Milan Perera

They have spent three years regeneratively farming the land in order to build the soil health of the three plots of land, each the size of six football pitches, which are now ready to host the trees and will also sequester multiple tonnes of CO2 – photo: Milan Perera

For the first time in its 800-year history, St Mary Redcliffe opened its doors to a contemporary art exhibitions. The artworks, by Chantal Meza, are abstractions that confront the devastation of the climate crisis, under the title ‘Eden Bleeds’ – photo: Chantal Meza

Church leaders said they were drawn to the series by the importance of its subject as well as the quality of the work which Canon Dan Tyndall described as “superb”. They said the Church of England has a responsibility to respond to the environmental crises, and consequently the church will frame its lent programme around ecological concerns – photo: Chantal Meza

Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership’s March Green Mingle saw the launch of Bristol Climate Action Investment – photo: Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership