Guest blog – Save wildlife. Stop birdwatching! by Andrew Lucas

Andrew works part-time for the Countryside Council for Wales, and is also a part-time postgraduate student at Swansea University. The views expressed here are his own.   Recently, I found myself at some traffic lights when an enormous, gleaming, silver SUV pulled up along side me.  At such moments I am insufferably smug.  Here I…

Guest blog – Every little helps? by Matt Williams

Matt Williams is a campaigner and organiser. He is Co-Director of the UK Youth Climate Coalition and is also undertaking a masters in Development Studies at Cambridge University. He regularly blogs at mattadamwilliams.co.uk    How much is the RSPB’s new partnership with Tesco really benefiting nature? I must preface this blog by stating that I’ve…

Guest blogs

I’m grateful to the growing number of people who have posted Guest Blogs on this site. So far, the following have occurred: ‘Mr White’ on the demise of the RSPB’s Mark Avery Peter Marren on the state of wildlife NGOs, statutory agencies and more. Ian Coghill on the work of the GWCT David Bullock on…

Guest blog – Gary Burgess, a pigeon fancier

Hi all I’m Gary Burgess and I’m a Pigeon Fancier and would like to thank Mark for this opportunity to write this Blog. I grew up in the late sixties/seventies. It now seems such a long time ago, almost like the dark ages. I was fortunate back in those days to live in an urban…

Guest blog – Matthew Chatfield on maerl

Maerl. What’s that then? Chances are, you don’t know what maerl is, or why anyone else might care. Unless you live in Falmouth – in which case you have probably found out quite a lot about maerl recently. It’s a rare marine habitat which, like many other such habitats, is protected in the UK by…