I have been asked to post the following as a development: Response from Oxford University Press Like you, we feel strongly that nature is essential to children’s lives and are encouraged to see that this is such an important issue to people. We want to reassure you that nature words are alive and well in our dictionaries – they are not lost. Our 17 children’s dictionaries contain thousands of nature words. The Junior Dictionary is a slim starter dictionary reflecting the language children use in the classroom, as required by the national curriculum. Despite containing fewer words than the majority of our children’s dictionaries, it still devotes hundreds of words to the natural world. If you are interested in finding out more about how words are selected for our dictionaries, please take a look at this blog: