Burning of what looks like a blanket bog – difficult to tell sometimes when it’s burned to a crisp – in a National Park. Yorkshire Dales this time. Many thanks to Nick Miles for these images.
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Tales from the Bird Fair (3) and a reminder
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Two unanswered questions in the Bird Brain of Britain quiz (winner, David Lindo) at the Bird Fair on Saturday had their answers in my book Remarkable Birds – see page 174 for the name of the female Chatham Island Black Robin from which all the population is derived and page 127 for more information on…
I’m interviewed in InsideEcology
You might find this interview with me interesting, and I found the earlier interview with Dusty Gedge an interesting read. I wonder who will be next?
Guest blog – New Natural Areas by Steve Jones
Steve Jones has worked in conservation in the UK and overseas for two decades, promoting wildlife-friendly farming and designated site conservation in the UK, and large mammal conservation in the tropics. He writes on wildlife-friendly farming, land sparing and rewilding and wrote a guest blog, England’s Serengeti, for this blog, back in January. …
Reflections on the 2017 Bird Fair (3)
Here are some suggestions for how the Bird Fair could help nature conservation even more than it does at the moment. Some are my ideas and others are good ideas from other people. They come in two lists – the less contentious list and the more contentious list and, I’ll keep stressing this, they are…