Sunday book review – On the Edge by Claude Martin

I spent Thursday with the World Land Trust who are experts in saving rainforests – working with local people to secure important fragments of biodiversity-rich habitats (that’s not all they do, but it is the thing about their work that I most admire). This book, by a former Director General of WWF International, is a…

Henry occupies the butts

Looking very snug there Henry! Occupy the butts! Go to a grouse moor, find a grouse butt, take a photograph of yourself occupying the butt, send in the photograph to this website. Finding one of these butts is easy – you don’t have to walk for miles across the moors – a lot of them…

Lost and found

I was lost but I found this rare Sulphur Clover plant by the side of the road somewhere in deepest Suffolk (apologies for the poor photo – on my mobile phone from the car!). Well, actually I found a nice man who got me unlost and was also marking the verge where the Sulphur Clover…