I got an email from WWT which pointed me towards this very fuzzy refocus document. There’s a lot about how great WWT is, how it is going to do loads of good things for wildlife but embedded in here is some very vague news about redundancies. As an organisation which funds conservation through duck zoos…
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Guest blog – Three fantastical things you didn’t know about PLANTS by Josh Styles
Josh Styles has been captivated by plants since the age of 6, which has carried over to now in his mid twenties and his love for plants has allowed him to get quite a bit done. Through university, he managed to balance three jobs and other volunteer commitments with his undergraduate ecology degree, and still…
Sunday book review – Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia by David Callahan
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This book does what it says on the cover: it is a guide to birdwatching sites in three East Anglian counties. It is thus a potentially useful book rather than a work of literature. So, how useful is it? Very! The long list of sites is the right list and the information about each site…
Sunday book review – Bear Markets and Beyond by Dhruti Shah and Dominic Bailey
Like me, you may have an idea of what Bear Markets and Bull Markets are (but this book will allow you to check whether you are right or not) but how about Bunny Markets, Deer Markets and Bulldog Markets? And when you walk through the financial jungle do you know your Civets from your Pacific…
The Nature Chronicles Prize
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Opening for entries in mid 2021 this new, biennial prize for contemporary nature writing has a first prize of £10,000, with 5 runners up each receiving £1000. Twitter @NaturePrize Facebook
Sunday book review – The History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
This is a wonderful book, for three reasons. First, its 450+ pages are full of Simon Barnes’s wonderful writing and here he is on his very best form. Second, it is about the wonderful diversity of life on Earth and there is no richer subject about which to write. And third, the book is well…
Tim Melling – Fox
Tim writes: I see Foxes regularly on my garden trail cam but I have never managed a photograph in my garden as they are very shy, and strictly nocturnal. This nervousness is probably because of years of persecution in my rural Pennine area. But in urban areas there seem to be fewer people wishing them…
Jane V. Adams – At least Nature has benefited…
Jane is a naturalist, photographer and nature writer living in Dorset. Her work has appeared in books, anthologies and blogs for charities such as The Wildlife Trusts and the International Bee Research Association. When she’s not exploring Dorset’s lanes and countryside she can be found lying on her stomach watching insects in her garden. Jane…