Public backs nature restoration to protect Britain from extreme weather, new polling reveals 62% of Britons believe the UK Government should invest more in nature restoration to address future extreme weather, while 74% believe the government is not preparing the country well for such events Almost two-thirds (62%) of the public want the UK Government…
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BSBI – Alien Star-thistles found in Hampshire
Hampshire botanist Tristan Norton has found three species of star-thistle in Hampshire; all are alien plants, one is nationally Endangered and one is new to the county, with only a handful of prior records across the UK. Tristan, who is the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland County Recorder for Hampshire, and his friend Gavin…
RSPB expands Lough Erne Reserve
RSPB Northern Ireland has announced the purchase of Carr Island on Lower Lough Erne, marking a significant expansion of its Lough Erne reserve, the RSPB’s most westerly nature reserve in the UK, and reinforcing its commitment to nature in the area. Supported by funding from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), the…
Guest blog – What all Wise Men and Women Know by Ric Edelman
Ric Edelman is a conservationist and creative writer. His new book CHEETAH Caught in Conflict, with illustrations by Iranian artist Sama Soltani, gives 50% royalties to cheetah protection. Ric co-founded Green Light Trust which mentored 60 community woodlands and now brings marginalised groups closer to nature through the learning of conservation skills. My…
Guest blog – Crow Hill Junction of CEP (240 MW) 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…
Evolution – Chris
And so we bid farewell to another very good BBC wildlife series. Evolution is a tricky subject as the motion picture camera hasn’t been around for much of Earth’s history and so there is a lot of leaning on CGI (which wouldn’t have been available in David Attenborough’s days) and fossils. But ending up with…
I thought it was an NFU advert…
I saw this advert at a rare visit to the cinema to see the Odyssey – so there was little escape.
Farming always plays the victim
Always beware of headlines with the word ‘could’ in them, and look for evidence of the dire event weakly predicted – often there is little evidence to back it up. Which food is going to be short and what is the evidence? This isn’t a great piece in the Guardian but, I’m afraid to say,…
Rod Liddle
I met Rod Liddle several times, going back to the time when he was editor of the Radio 4 Today programme and visited the RSPB at The Lodge. I’ve been interviewed by him several times for radio and Times TV. He was a proper journalist and tended to ask the right questions with enough vigour…
Chris – Evolution
The fourth of the five episodes was about dolphins and intelligence. Chris is still wearing the same T-shirt(s) – I wonder how many of that model-T he has. The shape of the programme was the same as the others; start with a well-loved vertebrate (elephant, ostrich, bat (OK – partly loved in this case), dolphin…