Standing up for Nature
I spent Thursday with the World Land Trust who are experts in saving rainforests – working with local people to secure important fragments of biodiversity-rich habitats (that’s not all they do, but it is the thing about their work that I most admire). This book, by a former Director General of WWF International, is a…
Looking very snug there Henry! Occupy the butts! Go to a grouse moor, find a grouse butt, take a photograph of yourself occupying the butt, send in the photograph to this website. Finding one of these butts is easy – you don’t have to walk for miles across the moors – a lot of them…
I was lost but I found this rare Sulphur Clover plant by the side of the road somewhere in deepest Suffolk (apologies for the poor photo – on my mobile phone from the car!). Well, actually I found a nice man who got me unlost and was also marking the verge where the Sulphur Clover…
Henry looks a bit glum on the road to Farr. #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
Let’s not forget that four male Hen Harriers have ‘disappeared’ this breeding season from active nests in the AONB of the Forest of Bowland whose logo is a Hen Harrier. The Duke of Westminster owns the grouse moor of Abbeystead in the Trough of Bowland but there are a couple of other sporting estates there…
Every time I open a Tetra Pak I hope I am helping eagles. Coignafearn is an unusual Scottish estate, set at the end of the road west of Tomatin (Tom-aaaahhh-tin) and owned by the Tetra Pak heiress Sigrid Rausing. Her aim is to restore the ecology of the estate and she has a passion for…
Funnily enough, I saw my first Turtle Dove of the year yesterday morning, somewhere (I was lost actually) in deepest Suffolk. I was driving along a B-road (which, because this was Suffolk, felt like a C-road) and I was thinking about Turtle Doves and regretting the fact that I hadn’t seen one, when a Turtle…
Emma Websdale is a Conservation Biologist and writer. Working as the Senior Communications Officer for The Wildlife Trusts, she is particularly motivated in engaging younger audiences, helping them make sure that nature doesn’t drop off their agenda. She has written two previous Guest Blogs for this site (one about extinction and Passenger Pigeons, and the…
Which way to go? Tomatin, which I had always thought was Tom-a-tin but is actually Tom-aaahhh-tin (according to Henry), has an excellent burger van by the A9 which does the very best bacon rolls. It’s called TasteBuds and the guy who runs it is very chatty – as well as providing very good bacon rolls….