Ian Carter has worked as an ornithologist for more than 25 years. He was involved with the Red Kite reintroduction programme in England and has a keen interest in the conservation of raptors, bird reintroductions and wildlife management more generally. He is particularly interested in human attitudes towards wildlife and the complex ways in which…
Year: 2017
Wild food (17) – Useful Books by Ian Carter
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That’s useful books used by me (not written by me) just in case that wasn’t obvious. These are a few of the books I refer to most often or have found especially inspiring. Mainly they are about the essential business of identification but they also describe how to go about tracking down edible species and…
The Passenger Pigeon’s DNA
I’ll always be interested in anything to do with the Passenger Pigeon – the formerly most abundant species on Earth but which was driven to extinction, finally, on 1 September 1914. A new paper in Science suggests that Passenger Pigeons had a very low genetic diversity. the authors describe this as surprising but I’m not…
Whither Gavin Gamble’s e-petition?
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition has already achieved something – it has shown us that Defra gives not a fig about wildlife crime. That may not surprise many people but it is a useful stake in the ground. I know that many people are suffering from petition fatigue (and I have as much cause to feel that…
Blue Planet 2 – programme 4
I thought this episode – about the open ocean – was the best so far. Great footage of boiling seas, sleeping Sperm Whales and a whole lot more. And for once, the message of environmental degradation was very adroitly put over – I thought. The scene was set about the immensity of the…