Sunday book review – Tadpole Hunter by Arnold Cooke

The author of this book was probably Britain’s first professional amphibian conservationist and his recollections of the evolution of the subject go back over five decades. Such insider accounts are valuable records of how we got to the current day. An idea of the importance of Arnold Cooke’s contributions to the field can be gauged…

Sunday book review – Wildlife in the Balance by Simon Mustoe

  This is a very good book and contains a great number of insights into how animal ecology works and what we get from all those species of animal out there. Plants don’t get much of a look-in, which is strange at first, and will annoy many folk out there, but actually that is part…

Sunday book review – INN Search of Birds by John Lawton

This is a fun book by a birder and one of the UK’s most eminent population ecologists. Prof Sir John Lawton CBE FRS has won numerous awards for his science and was the chair of a group which produced an important report known, as the Lawton report, Making Space for Nature, which recommended that England…

Sunday book review – Island to Island by Sally Mills

This is a follow up to the same author’s Island to Island (reviewed here) but with the subtitle ‘A collection of photographs – the pictures behind the story‘.  And it is  a book of photographs with some words joining them together from the island of Aride in the Seychelles where the author was a warden…