TODAY’S children are so out of touch with nature that just one in five of them will grow up to value it, conservationists warn.

What a desperate shame.

We have already seen the damage that a lack of concern about our environment can cause – everything from pollution and deforestation to the disappearance forever of unique wild creatures.

One man who is doing more than most to try to keep alive a love of wild things is Wolds artist and naturalist Robert Fuller.

We wish there were more like him.