Inglorious: conflict in the uplands will be available for Hen Harrier Day (9 August), the Inglorious 12th and thereafter. Published by Bloomsbury in late July – but you can order it now on World Book Day.
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Coming soon – Behind the Binoculars
This is my next book, and we (it is a joint production with Keith Betton) have just gone through the proofs. It should be out in early June despite the publisher’s website saying August! The book is a series of interviews with birders about how they got into birds, what birds mean to them, and…
Still Fighting
This week is World Book Week, apparently, and Thursday is World Book Day, apparently. I guess the other weeks and the other days are World ‘let’s not read a thing’ Weeks and Days. Still, it lets me remind you of some books, including this one of mine. I recently had a lovely email from someone…
Same old song
A reader of this blog was shocked, and somewhat horrified, to find this leaflet flutter out of his Farmers Guardian last week. He cancelled his subscription. This would be an excellent leaflet to give to a mixed group of students – biology students and media studies students – and ask them to analyse it….
Four weeks to go
In the eight months since I launched an e-petition on the government website to ban driven grouse shooting I have become more and more convinced that it is the right thing to do – and even that it is inevitable. Standing just short of 21,000 signatures, this e-petition now has four weeks to gather a…
Guest blog – Food security by Roderick Leslie
Although I worked as a forester I actually studied Agricultural & Forest Science under the great agricultural educationalist Mike Soper. Even back in the 70s I remember the question ‘where does it all end?’ was being asked – the risks of flash-over resistance to antibiotics from pigs to humans as a result of them being…
Oscar Dewhurst – Fox
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Oscar writes: this image is one from a project on Foxes a couple of years ago. I stumbled across them by chance more than anything, and over the next few months was able to build up a nice portfolio of images of them as they were very confiding. This was taken fairly early on. Nikon…
Sunday book review – What Nature does for Britain by Tony Juniper
Is nature beautiful or is it useful? Should we protect nature for its own sake or for our own sakes? Is nature priceless or can it have a value put on it? The answer to these questions can all be ‘Yes to both’ but we don’t treat the natural world as though we would say…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
What they said about the Natalie Bennett car-crash interviews: this blog Natalie Bennett in the Daily Telegraph Natalie Bennett in the Guardian Zoe Williams in the Guardian Daily Mail The Daily Mirror on car-crash interviews Cartoonist Ralph Underhill has an exhibition of his work in Aberdeen Central library next week as part of Aberdeen Climate…
A round up
Some things that caught my eye this week: £1000 reward for information on injured Buzzard in Yorkshire science and technology committee thinks that EU rules on GM crops are holding us back planet earth is a sick patient says future king Sweden’s racist bird names – do we have any of our own? Or any…