Standing up for Nature
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…
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…
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…
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…
This is the sixth Defra response to an e-petition attempting to press them into action on wildlife crime and unsustainable upland management associated with grouse shooting. And this is the sixth response in Defra which has failed to admit the scale of the problem of wildlife crime and failed to bring forward any sensible response….