Volunteers become salmon and earthworm to save the River Tone

In Somerset, eighteen volunteers took part in an unusual study: they learned to empathize with the physiology and senses of an animal – such as red deer, salmon, otter, kestrel or earthworm – to experience the threats to wildlife around the polluted River Tone. Participant Jake Lawy swam as a salmon through polluted, oxygen-poor water and immediately spotted possible solutions,...