Rewilding in cities can tackle climate-driven heatwaves and floods

Residents can even do their bit, by leaving part of their own gardens wild and avoiding artificial lawns and pesticides

Beavers have been re-introduced to London for the first time in more than 400 years thanks to a pioneering project. Picture: Enfield Council, March 17

Rewilding in cities could protect people against the rising threat of floods and heatwaves at the same time as boosting wildlife, a new report says.

Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) say that rewilding urban areas at scale could help tackle the climate and nature crises in a "low-cost, hands-off way" at the same time as improving people's health and wellbeing.