More than 10,000 people marched through central London to fight for wildlife.

Members of Waltham Forest and Redbridge’s Green Party attended the People’s Walk for Wildlife, organised by BBC Nature Presenter Chris Packham.

The event, held on Saturday, saw protestors march calling for the ban of pesticides, weedkillers, fracking and game hunting in an attempt to “rewild” England’s countryside.

Mark Dawes, campaign officer for Waltham Forest and Redbridge’s Green Party, said: “British wildlife has been decimated in recent years, this isn’t happening by accident.

“Our wildlife is being killed, starved, poisoned, ploughed up or concreted over. Unless action is taken, much of British wildlife will be lost for ever.

“We need to stop the current war on our wildlife and have a reverence for our nature and wildlife with Government policies to reflect that.”

According to the Royal Society for the Protection of Bird’s State of Nature report published in 2016, between 1970 and 2013 a total of 56 per cent of UK animal and bird species have declined and 15 per cent are now threatened with extinction.

Mr Dawes added: “We need to ban the weedkiller glyphosate, ban cruel driven grouse shooting, ban deer stalking, ban scallop dredging in UK waters, ban snares, ban fracking, stop the culling of badgers and enforce the Hunting Act to stop fox hunting for good – and rewild our countryside.”