Standing up for Nature
It’s nearly time for me to carry out the ‘late’ bird survey on my other BBS square. I wonder what I’ll find. I’m one of the BBS recorders who notes mammals as well as birds on my transect walks. I don’t see much, but the occasional Brown Hare or Rabbit is added to the recording…
Pheasant or Pheasant’s-eye? Nature Connection and Conservation What’s important about nature? I’m not talking about however many tonnes of Carbon a Sitka spruce tree locks up during its short life, or whether a Beaver stops a town flooding. I mean what is important to you, as a person. Why do you care about nature? A…
Social Distancing Week 13. Eyed Hawk-moth. Paul writes: I found this dramatic looking creature last week in my garden moth trap. It’s the first Eyed Hawk-moth I’ve seen, so I was really excited. I was immediately impressed by the size, the wing length is around 40mm. When resting normally it’s fairly drab looking and only…
Here in east Northants we are a bit lacking in coastal habitats and my nearest coast is muddy and sandy rather than rocky. If I lived at the coast I would love to explore the wildlife making its living, or temporarily made captive in the pools between the tidelines. As the author explains here so…
Tim writes: living in the north means I don’t see Dartford Warblers very often. But on the few times I have seen them I’m always surprised by how small they are. The book measurements are deceiving because they have a long tail. So at 12cm bill to tail tip they are 2cm longer than a…
SNH still hasn’t produced the review of wild hacking that they promised ahead of finalising any licensing decision.
I spent five hours on Microsoft Teams and Zoom yesterday, and was knackered at the end of it. Not sure why – all I was doing was chatting to nice people. Here is my 1-hour chat to Jimmi Hill of Raptor Aid about blogging, writing, campaigning and driven grouse shooting. Thanks Jimmi for the opportunity….
Kevin Walker is a botanist who leads on science, monitoring and data management for the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Before that he spent 12 glorious years working as a plant ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood, although much of that time was spent away carrying out fieldwork. Although his…
Press release: New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan The upcoming future strategy for conserving biodiversity must include a prominent target to lower extinction rates, say scientists. Biodiversity loss has continued unabated at an alarming rate, and so far, action to deliver on the global agreements in place has failed to prevent…