Dominic Woodfield is the Managing Director of Bioscan, a long established and well-respected consultancy specialising in applied ecology. He is a life-long birder, a specialist in botany, habitat restoration and creation and in protected fauna including bats, herpetofauna and other species. He is also a highly experienced practitioner in Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulations…
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Another rewilding project – MacKnepp?
The Ramsay family in Perthshire already have Beavers – I’ve seen the dams even though I didn’t see the Beavers when I visited in March 2019. they are taking the plunge and ‘doing a Knepp’ and are looking for £24,000 through crowdfunding to get this going. Well, it’s already going! They’ve raised a quarter of…
Pheasant predation on Swallowtail pupa filmed
The British subspecies of the Swallowtail is pretty much restricted to the Norfolk Broads and is a species whose numbers have increased in recent years although its distribution may have contracted. It’s a species of conservation concern and is the subject of conservation measures and studies. Kevin Radley and Hannah Breach are carrying out an…
Five weeks and 106,000+ signatures.
Another week, and another 6-7000 signatures – solid but not enough, in my view. Weekends are always slow, and this week has seen a three-day weekend, and the sun shone for some of it too – always bad for petitions. The future 1 April 2030 newspaper was a good attention raiser – every Westminster MP…
More riches of authorship
This book is out of stock at the publishers, Bloomsbury, and has been for quite some time now, but then it was published in 2015 (hardback) and 2016 (updated paperback). So if you see one in a bookshop just blow the dust off it, please. I received my royalty payment for 2020 recently and it…