Guest blog – Shrine to a Reluctant Hero (Part 2) by Conor Mark Jameson

Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)).   Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…

Sunday book review – The Cuckoo Calls the Year by Peter Stroh

  The author is a proper botanist (see my review of a very different earlier book he co-authored) and he doesn’t live very far away from me – down the Nene Valley in a place where it is probably mostly called the ‘Neen’ whereas up here we call it the ‘Nenn’ but I have never…

Storm 2

I stopped the car in a pleasant valley in West Wales last Monday and listened to Start the Week which had a very environmental content with Robert Macfarlane plugging his new book, Is a River Alive?, lawyer Monica Feria-Tinta talking about protecting habitats and plugging her book, A Barrister for the Earth, and Patrick Galbraith…

Carl Jones – saver of species

Carl Jones has a Kodiak Bear in his living room along with a couple of Giant Tortoises and many other animals, paintings and books. Outside there is a pair of Andean Condors  and some feisty Striated Caracaras. If you heard Carl on Desert Island Discs recently – click here – then this won’t surprise you…