This post is primarily designed for people who want to write Guest Blogs about some aspect of the natural world for this site. The blog is called Standing up for Nature and that gives you a clue about its focus. I am very happy to consider Guest Blogs for this site from individuals or from…
Category: BLOGS by guest authors
Guest blog – New Nature magazine by Alice Johnson
Having always loved wildlife, Alice studied a degree in conservation and has been involved with various projects, including helping barn owls with The Wildlife Trust and little terns with the RSPB. She keeps a wildlife blog (Nature Nattering) and writes content for The Woodland Trust. New Nature Magazine – Nature through…
Guest blog – A Question of Importance by Ian Parsons.
Ian Parsons spent twenty years working as a Ranger with the Forestry Commission, where he not only worked with birds of prey and dormice, but where he developed his passion for trees. Now a freelance writer, Ian runs his own specialist bird tour company leading tours to Extremadura. For more details see www.griffonholidays.com Ian’s new…
Guest blog – England’s Serengeti? 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 at https://naturalareasblog.wordpress.com Making space for wild nature in England’s wheat…
Guest blog – Food for Thought by Miles King
Lately I have been eating porridge for breakfast. I had forgotten how much I liked it, but there is another reason for having taken it up again. Oats are very good, apparently, at helping to restore gut flora and as I have been recovering from an infection which meant taking an awful lot of antibiotics…
Guest blog – The European or Common Alder by Murray Marr
I’m a life member of The Countryside Users Association, together with 64.1 million other Brits. I’m a semi-constant trainspotting observer of this parish’s 7/52 avian soundscape. I’m a casual delver into its historic landscape. I’m a cursory extra beside these grand, abandoned alders quaking above a deep, undisturbed paleo-ecological archive. The European or Common…
Guest blog – What have invertebrates ever done for us? by Jonathan Wallace
After studying zoology at university Jonathan was involved in ornithological research and conservation for a number of years in France, Scotland and West Africa. Subsequently he has spent most of his career as an environmental consultant, assisting industry in managing its environmental impacts. Wildlife, particularly insects, remain his first love however and he is a…
Guest blog – On Nature Writing and Reading by Nicola Chester
Nicola lives with her family in the North Wessex Downs, in the far west of West Berkshire. She has written for the RSPB and her local newspaper for over a decade, has written a book on Otters and features in each of the Wildlife Trusts’ Seasons Anthologies, edited by Melissa Harrison. As well as writing…
Guest blog – Wildlife politics by Lizzie Wilberforce
Lizzie gained her enthusiasm for wildlife from her family during her childhood, growing up in Bristol. Conservation volunteering soon became a passion, and she then moved to Wales in 1996 to study at Aberystwyth University. Since 2003 she has worked in nature conservation in the voluntary sector in Wales. It was Politics with a big ‘P’ that…
Guest blog – ‘I would teach them to shoot’ by Brian Watmough
Brian writes: I started birding in the 1960s watching pink-footed geese on the Lancashire mosses. Today I watch Brent Geese on the Kent coast, in between I have been lucky to enjoy birds in many places. “I would teach them to shoot and handle a gun,”Bob answered. We were three baby boomers sitting round…