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…
Category: BLOGS by guest authors
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…
Guest blog – Make Great Britain Green Again by Richard Benwell
Richard has worked in the Westminster parliament as a researcher in the House of Lords and as a Senior Clerk for the Energy and Climate Change Committee. He is now Head of Government Affairs at WWT after spending a couple of years as a Parliamentary Officer at the RSPB. “Make America…
Guest blog – Wildlife crime in Nepal by Peter Cosgrove
Peter Cosgrove carried out the first national pearl mussel survey and in one of those wonderful moments of happenstance, submitted his final report which recommended full legal protection during a periodic review of the Wildlife and Countryside Act. It had the desired effect and the law was changed in 1998 and Peter always highlights this…
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If you have been directed to this page then it’s probably because you have sent me an unsolicited email offering me a Guest Blog of the following general type: I have some great topics for your site Hello , I’m [insert name] and I just wanted to say that your blog, looks great…