Guest blog – A call to arms for seabird champions, by Becky Ingham

Becky is a marine scientist who has worked in the fisheries industry in the Southern Oceans as an observer and been closely involved with conservation issues around fishing as Director of Falklands Conservation between 1997-2005. After this, following a return to the UK, Becky worked for the RSPB in Eastern England until 2013, when she…

Guest blog – Ask not…., by Paul Sterry

Paul Sterry is a passionate conservationist and has been writing about natural history and photographing wildlife for the last 40 years. He founded the international competition Bird Photographer of the Year and is a trustee of the charity Birds on the Brink. Ask not what nature can do for you, ask what you can do…

Press release – RSPB, Scottish Wildlife Trust and WWF in Scotland

RESEARCH SHOWS NATURE’S RECOVERY CAN CREATE 7,000 NEW JOBS IN SCOTLAND Leading environmental charities highlight huge potential for nature jobs in Scotland but warn investment is falling behind New research from leading Scottish environment charities, published today, shows that backing their plan for nature’s recovery could create up to 7,000 new jobs, contributing to Scotland’s…

Guest blog – Proxy Records, by Tim Reed

Although an ornithologist by training, Tim Reed has a background in monitoring and data quality- starting with standardising management planning and data recording for the statutory sector, moving on to developing the widely-used Common Standards site condition model. After a long period introducing peer-reviewable data and biodiversity and ecosystem reporting models in big corporates around…