Open Meeting Tuesday 16th June 2026 Showing of the Peoples Emergency Briefing followed by Bulgarian Wolves

The People’s Emergency Briefing On Climate and the Nature Crisis.

We will be screening The People’s Emergency Briefing, a 50-minute film presented by naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham, alongside leading scientists, a former general, and Jennifer Saunders. It is, as its makers put it, a group of people being “far too frank about where things are heading and what can be done about it.”

The film grew out of a formal National Emergency Briefing held in Westminster last November, where ten of the UK’s leading experts briefed an audience of over 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport, and the media on the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food systems, national security, and the economy. That evidence is now on the public record, and this film takes it out of Westminster and into communities like ours.

The film arrives in the wake of some deeply uncomfortable news. The government attempted to suppress its own national security assessment of the impacts of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. Freedom of information requests eventually forced the release of a reduced version of the report, which revealed that the Joint Intelligence Committee had assessed every critical ecosystem to be on a pathway to collapse, with major associated threats to UK prosperity, food supply, and national security.

That is not a fringe view. The Joint Intelligence Committee is made up of the heads of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ. Their report issued a stark warning that without decisive action, the UK faces starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest, and wars rooted directly in food insecurity and economic instability.

This is the context in which we do what we do. Protecting badgers, monitoring populations, and campaigning against persecution are not small acts. They are part of a much larger effort to hold the line for wildlife across the UK. The film is designed to create honest local conversations, not just about the threat from climate and nature breakdown, but about what we can do together with our politicians to build a better future. We think it is exactly the right film for a group like ours, and we hope you will come and watch it with us.

Following the film, our Chair Denise Taylor will share highlights from her recent trip to Bulgaria, one of Europe’s most biodiverse and ecologically rich countries. Bulgaria is home to a remarkable range of large mammals, including wolves, bears, and lynx, alongside an extraordinary diversity of birds, insects, and plant life. Much of it thrives because significant areas of land have remained relatively undisturbed, a living example of what nature can do when it is given the space and protection it needs.

Denise will reflect on what she witnessed in the field, the conservation projects and communities working to protect these landscapes, and the questions her trip raised about how we approach wildlife protection at home. The parallels with our own work are striking. Whether it is habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, or the relentless pressure on species to adapt to changing land use and climate, the experiences of conservationists working in Bulgaria speak directly to the challenges we face in Warwickshire. For those of us who spend our evenings out with badgers, it is a reminder that local action is inseparable from the global story. What we protect here matters far beyond our county boundaries.