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….
Category: Guest blog
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…
Guest Blog – Real life bugs or a living planet? – by Pip Howard
Pip Howard is a British forester who lives and works in France. He worked with Save Our Woods and now at Forestcomms working on the pan European landscape research project HERCULES. Do Children Really Want Real Life Bugs or a Living Planet? All discussion on the environment will at some point, quite rightly, centre…