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…I am reading the Labour, Green and LibDem party manifestos to try to find out what they might do for nature. More later.

Well done Phil Lavender. There was also a police notice asking people to call 191 if anyone knew anything about bird of prey killing.

There is a general election on 12 December and if you are 18 years old then you are entitled to vote. But you can only actually vote if you are registered to vote. You have until midnight on Tuesday 26 November to register to vote. It takes just a few minutes to register. Without wanting…

Australia – another amazing programme. I’ve been to Australia once and I doubt I’ll ever go back. I was there in 2005 and we left Heathrow while the first of the Ashes tests was happening at Lord’s – England was obviously heading for a defeat. Just over two weeks later (after my first kangaroos, Duck-billed…

That flood, mentioned earlier this week, went away and then came back again. Only a fool would try to drive through there – even with all your handy tips.

Floods are in the news, and they are a serious matter, but this short blog post is mostly a flood-related story against myself, and is of little wider relevance or importance. There’s a road near where I live which often used to be flooded. Some unblocking and ditch-building and various other bits of engineering have…

Paolo Strampelli’s guest blog posted here in late October proved popular with readers of this blog, and has now been posted, with permission and acknowledgement) on the Africa Geographic website – click here, and will also appear in a magazine in January. You read it here first. Paolo’s guest blog is well worth reading more…

I was glad to see this in one of my local free papers. Not the most inspiring account of the beauty of the sun shining on a wheeling flock of Golden Plover in the Nene Valley but useful nonetheless. If we crash out of the EU then this protection, the Special Protection Area, could easily…

Last night David Attenborough took us to South America – I’ve never actually visited South America and I have had opportunities which I’ve turned down. In some ways seeing that programme compensated for not going myself, and in other ways it weakened my resolve never to go. Anyway, the point was, the film was amazing…