Jonny Hughes is CEO of the Scottish Wildlife Trust and a global councillor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Twitter: @jonnyecology What now for Beavers in the UK? It’s been an up and down kind of year for nature in the UK. The State of Nature report…
Category: Guest blog
Guest blog – Disturbing for Nature by Miles King
Miles King is Chief Executive of People Need Nature a new charity working to highlight the sensory, emotional and spiritual values of nature. He has worked in nature conservation for 30 years, leading the conservation work at Plantlife, The Grasslands Trust and Buglife. He has also worked for English Nature, Natural England and as a…
Guest blog – Looking for the wild in rewilding by Steven Robinson
Steven writes: I occasionally post comments on Mark’s blog as Apus Apus. This is my second guest blog (the first was “The taming of nature”) and this time I have written about rewilding and what it means to me. If you’re reading this, I hope you’re interested in rewilding and its ability to transform…
Guest blog – the Nature of Halloween by Findlay Wilde
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…
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…