Britain’s wild places are under pressure – but cycling gives us rare access to their beauty and fragility. Sophie Pavelle explores what’s at stake from the saddle

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Over centuries, we’ve profoundly changed Scotland’s rivers – pacifying them and bringing them under our control. We’ve felled native woodlands to ‘tidy’ riverbanks, disconnected watercourses from thei

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I bellow, naked under a waterfall in the Welsh countryside, each drop of water as vital as a first kiss. But there’s no one around to hear me, save for countless trees swaying in the breeze as if expr