The world-famous Glen Affric National Nature Reserve managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has joined Affric Highlands, the UK’s largest rewilding landscape – becoming the 20th landholding to sign up to the ambitious community-focused initiative. Affric Highlands aims to restore nature across more than 200,000 hectares of the central Highlands, through a linked network of landholdings…
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Bird Photographer of the Year 2025: Birds in Flight – Silver Award Disqualified
After a detailed review, the competition has made the decision to disqualify the Silver Award winner from the Birds in Flight category of the recently announced 2025 competition. Following further examination, it became clear that the submitted file did not meet the competition’s authenticity requirements and could not be verified as a genuine raw capture….
Press release – Calder Valley MP has lost his way on how to protect Walshaw Moor, say gutted constituents
Calder Valley MP has lost his way on how to protect Walshaw Moor, say gutted constituents Calder Valley environmental groups are asking their MP Josh Fenton-Glynn to explain his vote against two crucial House of Lords’ nature protection amendments to the contentious Planning and Infrastructure Bill on Thursday.Bede Mullen, a founder and former Chair of…
Sunday book review – Spiders and Harvestmen of Yorkshire by Richard I. Wilson.
The 429 spiders and 26 harvestmen species covered in this book form a significant proportion of the c700 spiders and 31 harvestmen in the UK which would have come as a surprise to Martin Lister who wrote the first book on English spiders which described 34 spiders and three harvestmen, opining that there was little…
Sunday book review – Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone by Robert B. Keitle
I’ve been to Yellowstone twice and I’m so glad I’ve had that experience. The World’s first National Park and the home of Old Faithful, the Great Prismatic Spring, beautiful views, Grey Wolves, Brown Bears and quite a lot of controversy. This book is, as the title fairly suggests, a book about nature conservation in the…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 4 by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Sunday book review – The Birds of Bedfordshire by Tony Ploszajski
This new county avifauna is a lovely book considering that Bedfordshire, like my adopted home county of Northamptonshire, is land-locked and, in many ways, is an unspectacular county for birds. But there are birds everywhere and their numbers change for a wide variety of reasons so every county avifauna is full of information destined to…
Sunday book review – The Breath of the Gods by Simon Winchester
I was reading this book when Storm Melissa hit Jamaica and that was a timely reminder of the destructive power of winds. In this book I learned that some parts of the world may be losing their winds and there is also concern about Global Stilling. There was lots to interest me in these pages…
Sussex Wildlife Trust gains legal victory
Henri Brocklebank is the Director of Conservation at Sussex Wildlife Trust and has been focused on wildlife in Sussex for many years. Seeing a functional network for nature in Sussex is the ambition and Henri works with her team and with partners across Sussex to bring that to a reality. A Victory for Nature:…
Press release – Scottish Rewilding Alliance
‘A win for people-led rewilding’ – new hutting law in Scotland to unlock public land to connect people and nature MSPs in the Scottish Parliament have voted to create a new hutting law compelling the Scottish Government to publish a model lease for hutting on public land. The change to the law will make it…