In 1983, David Nash dug up a section of Kensington Gardens and swapped it with Welsh grassland. Four decades later, Mike Perry’s reverse swap revealed a striking reversal in the fortunes of urban and rural nature In 1983, an open-topped truck unloaded an unusual cargo in Kensington Gardens: 83 h...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/16/turf-swap-40-years-apart-britain-biodiversity-crisis)

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