As MPs return to parliament from party conference season, leading MP Joan Walley, says the Government’s plans for bees ‘fail to offer’ the solution bees need. The decline in bee and other pollinators’ populations is a very real threat not just to the pollinators themselves but also to the world…
Category: Guest blog
Guest blog – What Martha Means to Me by Emma Websdale
Emma Websdale is a Conservation Biologist and Writer. Working as the Communications Support Officer for The Wildlife Trusts, she is particularly motivated in engaging younger audiences, helping them make sure that nature doesn’t drop off their agenda. I sit on a train that’s heading to London, September’s issue of BBC Wildlife in my hands….
Guest blog – The Sunken Garden by ‘filbert cobb’
Filbert cobb is a regular contributor of comments to this blog. Sometimes he seems a bit nutty. He is often witty but gets very serious about climate change. I encouraged him to write a Guest Blog for us and I was not disappointed, in fact I was delighted, by what he sent. Boyhood, nature…
Guest blog – Real life bugs, or a living planet..? A response by Max Barclay
Max Barclay is Collection Manager of Beetles at the Natural History Museum in London, where he manages a dedicated team of curators, and some 10 million specimens going back to the voyages of Charles Darwin, Captain Cook and beyond, consulted each year by hundreds of scientists from all over the world. A life-long naturalist, Max…
Guest Blog – It’s bee-hind you! by Teresa Verney-Brookes
I have spent many years in the conservation field and have worked for various national organisations including The Wildlife Trust and more recently as Education Officer for the RSPB. I now run my own Outdoor Education /Forest School business called Green-Trees. I feel passionately about the need connect children with the wonders of the wildlife…