They went to protest, mourning a decline in wild animal populations and to pressurise politicians 'addicted to an agenda of eternal growth and profit above all else'.
Shrewsbury resident with a barrier they carried at the march
The event saw TV wildlife presenter Chris Packham addressing the crowd, and was scheduled to coincide with Earth Day, the annual anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Sam Devine Turner, a wildlife educator from Shrewsbury, said:"Nature in the UK is in crisis. Due to a fast changing climate, habitat destruction, intensive agriculture and an attitude that we can continue to exploit nature's resources and systems without consequence, over 40 per cent of our wildlife has declined since the 1970s.
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