I wrote to the National Trust to get some information on which I could decide whether or not to give them my membership or my donations. My book Reflections proposes that we should all think of ourselves as ‘conservation investors’ and decide where our money is best spent amongst the large range of wildlife charities…
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Moorland Ass
It’s difficult to tell whether the Moorland Association is still alive, it had shown few signs of life during the last years of Amanda Anderson’s reign and the patient still seems to be in intensive care under Andrew Gilruth’s tenure. It appears that the brains of the Moorland Association have decided that a ‘let’s kill…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 27 – by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Being a conservation investor 4 – a response from the NT
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Thank you to all who have offered me advice on how I should travel to various NT properties to attempt to get my questions answered but I simply emailed them at [email protected] thus: I wrote this blog https://markavery.info/2024/03/16/being-a-conservation-investor-2-the-national-trust/ and received this response https://markavery.info/2024/04/21/being-a-conservation-investor-3-the-national-trust-brushes-me-off/ from Harry Bowell – it won’t do. Please organise a proper response. My next move will…
Sunday book review – Hunt for the Shadow Wolf by Derek Gow
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I have reviewed two of Derek Gow’s earlier books (Bringing Back the Beaver, September 2020; Birds, Beasts and Bedlam, July 2022) and both were very good books, but this is by some way a better book than either of those, which, to me, makes it an excellent book. You don’t have to be mad keen…