A cold day

Today is a cold day. Is it cold where you are? I have been snug and warm, and productive, writing away in my office since soon after 0600 this morning. I already feel that it has been a successful and productive day and yet there is lots more of it to come (and go). I…

Guest Blog – Think before you drink (coffee) by Emma Websdale

Emma Websdale is a Conservation Biologist and Writer. Working as the Communications Support Officer for The Wildlife Trusts, she is particularly motivated in engaging younger audiences, helping them make sure that nature doesn’t drop off their agenda.         After spending the day of 9 December stewarding people to march and rally for…

Langholm II

I’m not the only one who thinks that the GWCT hasn’t had a very good year according to the responses I’ve looked at in the readers’ survey for this blog (click here to enter your views). They are behaving so strangely that I wasn’t too surprised to read their rather odd account of the second…

Hare today and hopefully tomorrow

I was looking for information on the SNH website about the goose cull on Islay and came across this press release which appeared the day before Christmas Eve – maybe you missed it. This was the bit that caught my eye the most: ‘Large-scale culls of mountain hares to reduce tick loads, in order to…