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I saw this advert at a rare visit to the cinema to see the Odyssey – so there was little escape.  

The fourth of the five episodes was about dolphins and intelligence. Chris is still wearing the same T-shirt(s) – I wonder how many of that model-T he has. The shape of the programme was the same as the others; start with a well-loved vertebrate (elephant, ostrich, bat (OK – partly loved in this case), dolphin…

One of Scotland’s rarest habitats is set for recovery thanks to a funding award granted this month to landscape-scale nature restoration partnership, Loch Abar Mòr. The £108,000 award from the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund, managed by NatureScot, will go towards ‘Wee Trees Lochaber’, a project that will protect, enhance and expand mountain woodland across…

The RSPB issued the following stiff reminder of the law to media contacts earlier today: Urgent Media Alert: Drone and Helicopter activity over RSPB Minsmere wildfire For immediate attention of News Desks, Picture Desks and Aviation Teams We are aware of increased media interest in the fire at and around the Minsmere area in Suffolk….

Dr. James “Greg” Kuhns of Louisville has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Kentucky Leopold Conservation Award®. The award honors farmers and forestland owners who go above and beyond in the management of soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat on working land. Dr. Kuhns, who owns forest and farmland in Bullitt County,…

Last night’s episode of evolution was very good, I thought. Covering: the need for an arse, ears, jaws and flight we got to bats. There was a brief view of Mexican Free-tailed Bats flying out from their roost under the Congress Avenue Bridge over the Colorado River in Austin, Texas,  which I witnessed on 24…

It’s generally the case that the second in one of these series of wildlife documentaries is really good – and that is true of this one. You will watch the first episode to see what’s what and if you come back to the second and see something amazing then you’ll be hooked for the rest…

Yesterday I posted a very short blog with links to the Guardian story about a decision on nature conservation made by the Church of England (CofE) and the two papers which formed the background to the decision. I’ll call the first paper the Proposal and the second paper the Response. The Guardian article But let’s…

This was the Guardian’s report of yesterday’s decision which was leapt on by campaigners. Take a look at the paper that was put to the meeting:     And take a look at the paper in response:   I’ll come back to this later this week.

UPDATE – this post and its sharing on Bluesky @markavery worked! Thank you for sharing and responding. More news in due course if I am allowed.   I’ve been contacted by the Looted Art Commission who are trying to track down Henry Mayer-Gross (an ornithologist who was appointed as the BTO’s first Nest Records Scheme…