Beth is a Sussex-based nature writer who has enjoyed writing for websites, local newspapers and monthly regional and charity magazines. She has recently completed an MA in nature and travel writing at Bath Spa University and hopes to use her new skills and experience in purpose-led PR to write about conservation and rewilding. Warning: Viewers…
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English Hen Harrier numbers slump
Natural England has published, in more detail than in previous years (click here), the numbers of Hen Harriers nesting in England – they are down this year. Numbers in 2024 are lower than in 2023 and 2022 and only slightly higher than in 2021. This year puts an end to a run of years of…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 33 by Anne Caldwell and Nick MacKinnon
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Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 33 by Anne Caldwell and Nick MacKinnon Anne Caldwell is a freelance writer and education specialist, based in Hebden Bridge. She has worked for the National Association for Writers in Education, and currently lectures for the Open University as an as well as working as an Advisory Fellow for the…
Sunday book review – The Migration Ecology of Birds (2nd edition) by Ian Newton
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This second edition of a book first published in 2008 is a masterwork (but its price is beyond most individual readers and so it will mostly be read in academic libraries). I have the first edition on my shelves and a .pdf of this second edition in my inbox. This fully revised edition (rewritten with…
Sunday book review – Change Everything by Natalie Bennett
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I’ve had the .pdf of this book for many months and not got around to reading it until now. I wish I had got to it sooner as it is a good read and a good advert for green politics. I did turn to the last chapter, Greenism: A Complete Political Philosophy to start and…
Sunday book review – Robin Prytherch A Life with Buzzards edited by Lyndon Roberts
Robin Prytherch died in 2021 and we lost a stalwart of British and Bristol ornithology. As I grew up in Bristol as a teenage birder Robin Prytherch was a leading light in the Bristol Ornithological Club, he had designed its logo on the club’s founding in 1966 and the subject was a Pied-billed Grebe which…
Sunday book review – What The Wild Sea Can Be by Helen Scales
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Reviewed by Jonathan Wallace. Seen from space we are the Blue Planet. About 70% of the planet’s surface is covered by oceans and these waters are fundamental to life on Earth. The oceans were the cradle in which life began and they remain the home for vast numbers of species. They are also vital…
Sunday book review – Nature Notes by Tim Deane
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This is a compilation of quarterly articles which appeared in The Organic Grower between 2009 and 2021. The author is, or was, an organic farmer in south Devon. We often hear that farmers are stewards of the countryside and all that lives there – well a better case for that can be made for organic…
Sunday book review – The Last of Its Kind by Gisli Palsson
This is a heavily revised and expanded English translation of a book published in Icelandic in 2020. The translator, Anna Yates, is to be thanked, along with the author and publisher, for making such an interesting book accessible to English readers. I’m interested in extinction and the Great Auk is a famous extinction. Of course,…
Guest blog – We need to talk about ALAN by Jonathan Wallace
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After studying zoology at university Jonathan was involved in ornithological research and conservation for a number of years in France, Scotland and West Africa. Subsequently he has spent most of his career as an environmental consultant, assisting industry in managing its environmental impacts. Wildlife, particularly insects, remain his first love however and he is a…