Guest Blog – Think before you drink (coffee) by Emma Websdale

Emma Websdale is a Conservation Biologist and Writer. Working as the Communications Support Officer for The Wildlife Trusts, she is particularly motivated in engaging younger audiences, helping them make sure that nature doesn’t drop off their agenda.         After spending the day of 9 December stewarding people to march and rally for…

Langholm II

I’m not the only one who thinks that the GWCT hasn’t had a very good year according to the responses I’ve looked at in the readers’ survey for this blog (click here to enter your views). They are behaving so strangely that I wasn’t too surprised to read their rather odd account of the second…

Hare today and hopefully tomorrow

I was looking for information on the SNH website about the goose cull on Islay and came across this press release which appeared the day before Christmas Eve – maybe you missed it. This was the bit that caught my eye the most: ‘Large-scale culls of mountain hares to reduce tick loads, in order to…

Charles Moore – revisited

I am thinking of adding the phrase ‘Expert campaigner – Charles Moore’ to my website given the plug that the former editor of the Daily Torygraph gave to my work a while back. As pointed out earlier, Mr Moore forgot to mention that he is not just a neutral journalist but is a keen supporter…