Maisie is the Campaign Director and co-founder of Crustacean Compassion. She has previously worked at World Animal Protection, where she successfully co-coordinated the EU Supporting Better Dairy campaign in coalition with Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream and Compassion in World Farming, for whom she is also a school speaker. She is currently a Sociology PhD candidate…
Category: BLOGS by guest authors
Guest blog – Save the Dukes of the North York Moors by Steve Bamford
Steve Bamford writes: I am an amateur naturalist and volunteer recorder/worker of Butterfly Conservation. This is a plea for donations, no matter how small, to save an iconic species of butterfly that is just holding on after years of decline in an area where it used to be…
Guest blog – Opportunity for young people by Keith Betton
Keith Betton is, amongst other things, a mate of mine and the co-author of Behind the Binoculars, in whose pages you can find out more about him. At the moment he is in Senegal birding but he left this blog before he left. SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT THE LACK OF YOUNG BIRDERS?…
Guest blog – More from the Peak District by Bob Berzins
Bob writes: I have a life long passion for the outdoors through rock climbing and fell running. A cancer scare in my thirties made me appreciate many things I simply hadn’t noticed before, from the smallest plants to the gap in the sky from a missing raptor. It’s all worth fighting for and that’s what…
Guest blog – Peak District paths by Bob Berzins
Bob writes: I have a life long passion for the outdoors through rock climbing and fell running. A cancer scare in my thirties made me appreciate many things I simply hadn’t noticed before, from the smallest plants to the gap in the sky from a missing raptor. It’s all worth fighting for and that’s what…
Guest blog – What will you do as Rome burns? by Laura Kammermeier
Laura Kammermeier is a writer, birder, environmentalist, and communications consultant. She is also a news junkie, a defender of freedom, and an activist. She’s really teed off right now. She lives in New York state. Laura can be found on the web at MyDigitalNature.com and NatureTravelNetwork.com. What will you do as…
Guest blog – Spurn development decision by Georgia Locock
Georgia is a young naturalist and blogger. She is in her second year of A levels and plans to study zoology at university. Amongst her fascination of all wildlife, she particularly enjoys using trail cameras to capture footage of nocturnal wildlife, birding, campaigning and sharing her fascination of the natural world in the hope of…
Guest blog – Neonic analysis by Jeremy Greenwood
Mark writes: This guest blog, by Prof Jeremy Greenwood, rounds off the story of doubts about Syngenta’s analysis of impacts of neonics on bees. Professor Jeremy Greenwood CBE, Hon DSc, CBiol, FRSB is a former Director of the British Trust for Ornithology and is an Honorary Professor attached to the Centre of Ecological and Environmental Monitoring…
Guest blog – #SaveLodgeHill by Adrian Thomas
Adrian Thomas is a lifelong birder, editor of The Birds of Sussex, and author of RSPB Gardening for Wildlife. Oh, and he has a day job with the RSPB as a Project Manager, which has included the NoAirport@Cliffe campaign and working with the Environment Agency to create Medmerry, the major managed realignment scheme in West…
Guest blog – Murder on the African Express by James Hogg
James (@JWTHogg) writes: I grew up on a farm on the edge of the North York Moors and have always been interested by nature and always wanted to be able to put a name to everything. Over the years this has grown to a love of birds and luckily circumstances have allowed me to travel…