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The following is a lightly edited version of an email I recently received from someone whose identity I know, and who I know to be a NE employee.  Understandably their identity is not revealed here. The editing I have done is mostly to remove clues as to their identity. I work for NE.  I’m writing…

Ground-breaking project gets green light Major project to safeguard Orkney’s internationally important native wildlife wins National Lottery and LIFE support An ambitious project to safeguard Orkney’s world-renowned and internationally important native wildlife has been given the go ahead after receiving support from the National Lottery and the EU’s LIFE programme, it was announced today. The…

Occasionally, and obviously out of the blue, I get an email a bit like this. Just finished Inglorious. Thank you so much for writing this book. I am ‘relatively’ knowledgeable I feel about land use issues, but I learnt so much from you.  I was rudely awakened as to the realities of the driven grouse…

Mary Colwell is an award winning radio, TV and internet producer winning 14 awards over the last 5 years, including a Sony Gold in 2009.  She is also a radio presenter and feature writer for The Tablet. Mary has written three previous guest blogs here (A Natural History GCSE, 23 November 2012; Shared Planet, 15…