The United Kingdom’s central bank, the Bank of England, announced this week that Winston Churchill will be removed from the 5-pound ($6.60 value) note. The next series of banknotes will replace all historical figures on the reverse side with images of British wildlife, ending a tradition that has endured for more than half a century. Otters, badgers, and puffins will take the place of the man whose wartime leadership held together a country and a continent. King Charles III will remain on the front. The back, however, will belong to fauna.

The Bank cites a 2025 public consultation in which about 60% of 44,000 respondents chose nature as their preferred theme, ahead of historical figures at 38%. Victoria Cleland, the Bank’s chief cashier, frames the redesign as an anti-counterfeiting measure, arguing that wildlife imagery suits the complex........

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