I’m very grateful to all the Guest Bloggers who have graced these pages in 2014. I am always open to the idea of publishing Guest Blogs so please do get in touch if you think you have something interesting to share here. This is a list of all the Guest Blogs (I think, except the…
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A cold day
Today is a cold day. Is it cold where you are? I have been snug and warm, and productive, writing away in my office since soon after 0600 this morning. I already feel that it has been a successful and productive day and yet there is lots more of it to come (and go). I…
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Guest Blog – Think before you drink (coffee) by Emma Websdale
Emma Websdale is a Conservation Biologist and Writer. Working as the Communications Support 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. After spending the day of 9 December stewarding people to march and rally for…
Langholm II
I’m not the only one who thinks that the GWCT hasn’t had a very good year according to the responses I’ve looked at in the readers’ survey for this blog (click here to enter your views). They are behaving so strangely that I wasn’t too surprised to read their rather odd account of the second…
Hare today and hopefully tomorrow
I was looking for information on the SNH website about the goose cull on Islay and came across this press release which appeared the day before Christmas Eve – maybe you missed it. This was the bit that caught my eye the most: ‘Large-scale culls of mountain hares to reduce tick loads, in order to…
Charles Moore – revisited
I am thinking of adding the phrase ‘Expert campaigner – Charles Moore’ to my website given the plug that the former editor of the Daily Torygraph gave to my work a while back. As pointed out earlier, Mr Moore forgot to mention that he is not just a neutral journalist but is a keen supporter…
The remarkable Raven
I know they are quite like Carrion Crows and simply black but the Raven is a remarkable bird. I saw half a dozen Ravens deep in Northamptonshire yesterday. They were feeding with crows in a field of sheep. Thirty years ago they would have been an arresting and newsworthy sight. These days they are a…
Boxing Day
It’s still Christmas, so although the GWCT deserve a cuff round the ears (wearing boxing (day) gloves to limit any lasting pain) for their recent blog on Langholm events, that can wait. Boxing Day is absolutely associated, in my mind, with National Hunt racing. The ‘alternative Cheltenham Gold Cup’, otherwise known as the ‘King George…
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