St Margaret’s School (school motto Fides in mercato) Nature Club By E Truss (Senior Prefect) Gosh! Hello everyone! What an exciting week or so it has been! We are all feeling a little bit dazed after everything that has happened since the decision was taken to take the school out of…
Category: Guest blog
Guest blog – Bowland and its lack of raptors by Terry Pickford
I have been involved with monitoring and protecting raptors, in particular the Peregrine beginning 1967, when the North West Raptor Group was established, then only 7 active territories remained in the North West England. In the 1980s I located the first ground nesting pair of Peregrines close to the A6 on Shap. Field work began…
Guest blog – Kick the Butts out of Kinder Scout by Nick Moyes
Nick Moyes is former Senior Keeper of Natural History at Derby Museum; co-author of The Flora of Derbyshire, and technical advisor to the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project, which he helped set up. He is currently campaigning to get The Sanctuary LNR restored by Derby City Council, and advises on biodiversity action plans across Lowland Derbyshire….
Guest blog – Britain’s bees are under threat by Andrew Pendleton of FoE
Andrew Pendleton is the Head of Campaigns for Friends of the Earth. Here’s a prescription for a fine afternoon on a warm day in June. Take smartphone and drink of choice. Sit in garden. Wait for sun to come out and bees to take to the wing, use smartphone to record which type of bees…
Guest blog – The battle for Beddington Farmlands (lost?) by Peter Alfrey
Peter Alfrey is a naturalist based at Beddington Farmlands, and is director of Little Oak, a small company specialising in nature-friendly green space management in South London Beddington Farmlands is a 400 acre site in South London, designated a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation, is Metropolitan Open Land and has a total of…