The Red Squirrel: A Future in the Forest SCOTLAND: The Big Picture is a team of media professionals – photographers, filmmakers, writers and designers – fusing ecological science with visual storytelling to amplify the case for a wilder Scotland. Though undoubtedly spectacular, Scotland is an ecological shadow of its former self. Its turbulent past has…
Year: 2017
Tilting at windmills
Two images of distant windfarms taken in Spain last week (both rather poor images I’m afraid – partly the heat haze but largely the photographer). These would keep Don Quixote busy for quite a while – both included more than a hundred individual turbines. Now I know nothing about the environmental impact assessments that may…
Guest blog – Badger culling: time to work together? by Prof Rosie Woodroffe
Rosie Woodroffe is an ecologist and former member of the Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB, which advised government on TB control for 10 years. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Zoological Society of London and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. She is on Twitter at @rosiewoodroffe. Badger culling: time to…
Biscayed
Comments Off on Biscayed
I’ll still be bobbing about in the Bay of Biscay when this post appears but before heading to bed last night I had seen some Common Dolphins and a few Pilot Whales. I’m not sure which is really more impressive – a few Pilot Whales or the ability to write a blog about them whilst…
The streets of Granada
There is is a call made by House Sparrows that, in the books, would normally be rendered as ‘cheep!’. After the Semana Santa processions, the streets of Granada are spattered with candle wax. People skid over the cobbbled streets on the wax and their shoes make the same noise as a House Sparrow going…