Findlay Wilde is a mate of mine and when this Halloween guest blog is published we will probably be sitting close to each other in Westminster Hall listening to the debate on the future of driven grouse shooting. Or we might have gone to the pub… Previous guest blogs by Findlay: Is the future in…
Category: BLOGS by guest authors
Guest blog – Royal Patrons by John Burton
John Burton is one of the most experienced and free-thinking of British conservationists. He was a founder and the first chief executive of the World Land Trust. He stood down from that position recently but will still be working hard for WLT into the future. John has just started blogging himself, here. One of my…
Guest blog – Spurn: wilderness, fascination, and a worrying situation by Georgia Locock
Georgia is a young naturalist and blogger. She has just started her second year of A levels and plans to study Zoology at university next year. 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…
Guest blog – Toads declines are about more than toads or amphibians by Silviu Petrovan
Silviu joined Froglife in 2011 to take up the new post of Conservation Coordinator. Despite recently working on mammals for a number of years Silviu has always been interested in reptiles and amphibians and has worked as a herpetologist on several research projects, primarily in Romania, Honduras and Indonesia. He is a fully qualified vet…
Guest blog – Impressions from the RSPB AGM by Lyn Ebbs
By education and training I am a microbiologist and worked in the NHS and biotech sector. I finished my working career in clinical research and patient safety in the pharmaceutical industry, so am a firm believer in evidence-based science. I’ve been a member of the RSPB for many years and started volunteering for them when…
Guest blog – Remember not to Forget by filbert cobb
filbert cobb is a regular commenter on this blog and has been since its early days (since February 2012). I suspect filbert cobb may not be his real name. He wrote a brilliant guest blog here two years ago (The Sunken Garden) and I have been looking forward to his next one – and here…
Guest blog – Tree Blindness 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 This is…
Guest blog – Big Brother FC says No! by Peter Marren
Peter Marren has contributed Guest Blogs here before (NHM threatens wildlife (garden), 27 October 2015, Where green objectives clash, 26 January 2015; Ashes to ashes, 7 November 2012; Wildlife NGOs, 7 October 2011) and his excellent books Where the Wild Thyme Blew and Rainbow Dust – three centuries of delight in British butterflies…
Guest blog – The threatened valley of the River Yare by Prof Tim O’Riordan
Tim O’Riordan is emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He is President of the Norfolk Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England, and co-chair of Colney Parish. The threatened Yare Valley on the western margin of Norwich The valley of the River Yare situated on the…
Guest blog – Otters are in trouble by Grace Yoxon
I studied Geology and Biology at Keele University and graduated in 1979. My husband and I moved to Skye in 1980 and in 1984 we set up the Skye Environmental Centre to run courses in geology and wildlife. We then started receiving injured wildlife and this was the start of the animal rescue and rehabilitation…