RSPB announces new President and Ambassadors Dr Amir Khan has been elected as the RSPB’s new President. Dr Khan is an NHS doctor, best-selling author and resident doctor on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and Lorraine, as well as being a nature enthusiast and environmental campaigner. The RSPB also announces their first-ever Ambassadors including Deborah Meaden, Megan McCubbin, and…
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Guest blog – World Land Trust appeal by Andy Langley
Andy Langley is a wildlife enthusiast and supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), who will be doing a sponsored birdwatch this October to raise money for WLT’s ‘Life on the Edge’ appeal, to save unique foothill forests of Ecuador’s eastern Andes which are under threat. Each October, for the last five years, my employer Ecclesiastical…
More on bird flu
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North West Bird Watching Festival at Martin Mere cancelled because of bird flu. A dead Hen Harrier with bird flu from Highland in this week’s non-informative update from Defra (see here). Also five Gannets tested positive from two locations in Cornwall. Remember, the number of birds testing positive may not be the number of birds…
Sunday book review – Lichens by Vincent Zonca (translated by Jody Gladding)
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This is a very individual book, and I’m afraid it didn’t appeal much to this individual but that does not mean that it won’t appeal to you. So let me describe it. There are four parts to this book; First Contacts; To Describe, Name, Represent; Ecopoetics: Life Force and Resistance; Towards a Symbiotic Way of…
Sunday book review – Divide by Anna Jones
This book, by farmer’s daughter and now-journalist and media presenter Anna Jones, is one of the most enjoyable and interesting books I have read this year – and I write that in full knowledge that in a few weeks I’ll be choosing my books of the year (click here for 2021’s list). It examines the…