… so bring on the plague of locusts! Aren’t locusts amazing? Did you see them last night on Planet Earth 2? How amazing?!! But we did do for the Rocky Mountain Locust without even trying – see A Message from Martha p202-03. And the scorpion-eating bat from the Negev? And the shoulder-barging giraffe? And the…
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Guest blog – What now for Beavers in the UK? by Jonny Hughes
Jonny Hughes is CEO of the Scottish Wildlife Trust and a global councillor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Twitter: @jonnyecology What now for Beavers in the UK? It’s been an up and down kind of year for nature in the UK. The State of Nature report…
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Waiting for a winner to get in touch
You may be wondering who has won the last category (Wildlife and Politics) of this blog’s writing competition. Well, we have a winner, unanimously chosen by the three judges. But I’m waiting for the winner to get in touch with me so that I can send her (for the winner is a she) a copy…
Remarkable Birds – a Times book of the year
This was a very pleasant surprise! When I returned home yesterday evening, in time to watch Strictly, after a lovely day at a Dorset Bird Club/BTO conference, my Mum was on the ‘phone reading me this review of Remarkable Birds which appeared in The Times as a book of the year in the ‘outdoors’ category:…
Sunday book review – Walking with Birds by Colin Whittle
This is a very pleasant book of observations of birds around the author’s home in the Lake District. There is a lot about the flight of Buzzards and the song of Blackbirds. I really liked the author’s watercolours of the views and some birds of the Lake District and nearby areas although I’m not…
Tim Melling – Nightjar
Tim writes: Like Desert Island Discs, if I had to choose just eight species of bird to be stranded on a desert island with, Nightjar would definitely be on the list. It took me ages but I finally succeeded in finding a nest of my local Nightjars in the Peak District moors. This is quite…
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British Beavers Back to stay
Eurasian Beavers living in northern Britain, Scotland actually, are to be given legal protection so that they can spread their range naturally. This is a big step forward for rewilding proponents and anti-de-wilding proponents but I forecast trouble ahead. Already the NFUS is up in arms about this and has said that proper management of…
Guest blog – What we do at Knepp by Charlie Burrell
Charlie Burrell inherited Knepp Estate, a 3,500 acre dairy and arable farm in West Sussex in the 1980s. After farming intensively and unprofitably on the heavy clay for 17 years, in 2000 he embarked on a rewilding project based on a system of naturalistic grazing. It is the largest such project in lowland Britain…