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Sunday book review – A Beginner’s Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies of Britain and Ireland by David Chandler
This book was published last year but I missed it. It’s a beginner’s guide – like it says in its title. By that it means that although it covers all the damselflies and dragonflies of the British Isles it concentrates on those species that are most common and widespread – just to get you started….
Sunday book review – International Treaties in Nature Conservation by Stroud, D.A. et al.
This is a small book on a big subject. The subject of international treaties (such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Ramsar Convention, the Bern Convention) may not sound gripping but it is important if one wants to understand why governments must behave in certain ways and can be brought to account if they…
Good things and bad things
If you are subscribed to my free monthly newsletter then last week you would have received my thoughts on George Eustice’s environment speech – there were good bits and less good bits. The most worrying looking bit was the announcement that DEFRA was going to fiddle about with the Habitats Regulations now that we are…
Guest blog – The Cultural Landscape in the Anthropocene by Karen Lloyd
Karen Lloyd is the author of Abundance: Nature in Recovery, published by Bloomsbury in September 2021, and the award-winning author of The Gathering Tide; A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay and The Blackbird Diaries, both published by Saraband. She is an environmental activist and produced and edited the Curlew Calling Anthology to raise…