Guest blog – The Great Beaver Betrayal by Tom Bowser

Tom Bowser is the owner of Argaty, a working farm based on the Braes of Doune in central Scotland, which aims to produce food in an environmentally sensitive manner and to make a home for nature. Tom is author of A Sky Full of Kites: a rewilding story (reviewed on this blog) and the forthcoming…

Sunday book review – Waters of Life by Tom Bowser

The European Beaver is a Marmite species – people do seem either to love it or hate it. And by ‘hate’ I am not exaggerating ‘mildly dislike’; some people really do hate it. Considering this is a species that has been absent from the UK for centuries and is still found only in relatively few…