Jake Fiennes: 'I don't want to be the Gordon Ramsay of conservation'

It's a tough gig: restore UK wildlife and produce better food. But the expletive-loving conservationist has pulled it off, earning the respect of farmers and ecologists. How's he done it?You can't come out with me without seeing some teaspoons!" says Jake Fiennes on the phone before we meet for a romp across England's largest privately owned national nature reserve.It will be a while before I realise what the conservation director for the 25,000-acre Holkham Estate means, but it probably involves "some fucking drop-dead gorgeous nature", as Fiennes puts it. The Norfolk coast estate - one third of which is nature reserve - was already brimming with rare birds, plants and butterflies before he arrived three-and-a-half years ago, but he has created even more with his management.Jake Fiennes at Warham Camp, tree species unknown. Continue reading...