ENVIRONMENTAL groups held a ‘funeral for nature’ in Purbeck over the weekend.

Extinction Rebellion, Sustainable Wareham, Surfers Against Sewage, Christian Climate Action and Zero Hour gathered in Swanage to mourn the loss of nature to global warming.

To a solemn drumbeat, formally dressed pall bearers carried a coffin high followed by a procession of mourners.

Fifty people marched along in silence along Shore Road, with the coffin was topped with a wreath of single use plastic and a papier-mâché bird.