… so bring on the plague of locusts! Aren’t locusts amazing? Did you see them last night on Planet Earth 2? How amazing?!! But we did do for the Rocky Mountain Locust without even trying – see A Message from Martha p202-03. And the scorpion-eating bat from the Negev? And the shoulder-barging giraffe? And the…
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Guest blog – What now for Beavers in the UK? by Jonny Hughes
Jonny Hughes is CEO of the Scottish Wildlife Trust and a global councillor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Twitter: @jonnyecology What now for Beavers in the UK? It’s been an up and down kind of year for nature in the UK. The State of Nature report…
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Waiting for a winner to get in touch
You may be wondering who has won the last category (Wildlife and Politics) of this blog’s writing competition. Well, we have a winner, unanimously chosen by the three judges. But I’m waiting for the winner to get in touch with me so that I can send her (for the winner is a she) a copy…
Remarkable Birds – a Times book of the year
This was a very pleasant surprise! When I returned home yesterday evening, in time to watch Strictly, after a lovely day at a Dorset Bird Club/BTO conference, my Mum was on the ‘phone reading me this review of Remarkable Birds which appeared in The Times as a book of the year in the ‘outdoors’ category:…