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Guest blog – On natural beauty, a cautionary tale by Andrew Painting.
Andrew Painting, 27, is an ecologist working in the Scottish highlands. He studies human/environment relations at Aberdeen University, and occasionally writes about environmental issues. Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life Oscar Wilde, ‘The Decay of Lying‘ A few days ago I was out on the moor and I saw an exquisite little…
London’s a funny place
London’s a funny place – but then, you knew that didn’t you? Here’s a Robin in a tree in Soho – how lovely to see. The Christmas decorations in Monmouth Street had plenty of mammals on them, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and rabbits, but there were some odd birds in the trees with the Robins. What…
Bird flu panic
If you are a poultry farmer with thousands of turkeys, or if you have a couple of hens in your garden, they need to be housed for the next month according to Defra (and the Welsh and Scottish governments too, but not Northern Ireland) to avoid encountering ‘wild birds’ carrying a new strain of bird…
Guest blog – Bag Charge by Janice Hume
Janice writes: I am a bookseller by trade, currently manager of a branch of Waterstones. My passion for books is more than matched by my passion for wildlife and wild places. Bag charge It’s a year since the Government imposed a small charge on single use plastic bags and in my experience on the…