Beth is a Sussex-based nature writer who has enjoyed writing for websites, local newspapers and monthly regional and charity magazines. She has recently completed an MA in nature and travel writing at Bath Spa University and hopes to use her new skills and experience in purpose-led PR to write about conservation and rewilding. Warning: Viewers…
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English Hen Harrier numbers slump
Natural England has published, in more detail than in previous years (click here), the numbers of Hen Harriers nesting in England – they are down this year. Numbers in 2024 are lower than in 2023 and 2022 and only slightly higher than in 2021. This year puts an end to a run of years of…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 33 by Anne Caldwell and Nick MacKinnon
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 33 by Anne Caldwell and Nick MacKinnon Anne Caldwell is a freelance writer and education specialist, based in Hebden Bridge. She has worked for the National Association for Writers in Education, and currently lectures for the Open University as an as well as working as an Advisory Fellow for the…
Sunday book review – The Migration Ecology of Birds (2nd edition) by Ian Newton
This second edition of a book first published in 2008 is a masterwork (but its price is beyond most individual readers and so it will mostly be read in academic libraries). I have the first edition on my shelves and a .pdf of this second edition in my inbox. This fully revised edition (rewritten with…
Sunday book review – Change Everything by Natalie Bennett
I’ve had the .pdf of this book for many months and not got around to reading it until now. I wish I had got to it sooner as it is a good read and a good advert for green politics. I did turn to the last chapter, Greenism: A Complete Political Philosophy to start and…