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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…

DEFRA has today published its latest report on how badly it is doing in conserving bird populations. The graphs above show the individual values for each year of the aggregated population levels for groups of birds by habitat. So the dotted lines go up and down from year to year. The solid lines show the…

Labour’s election pledge for a big investment in energy-saving and green energy production is a vote winner with younger voters – and with me (see here and here). If there is a climate crisis (and there is) then we need to invest in this type of thing. The investment in insulation, which is always at…

Last night it was Asia – big place Asia, so it’s not surprising there was some good footage from the Walruses and Polar Bears of the Arctic and the fighting reptiles of the deserts to the disappearing Sumatran Rhinos and Orang Utans of the jungles. Vertebrate-heavy as usual – though not many birds were squeezed…

‘Be careful what you wish for…’ is a phrase that any campaigner finds often crops up. It is almost always uttered by someone diametrically opposed to whatever it is that you are seeking. Rarely (I won’t say never) does it come from cautious people on your own side of debate and that tells you something….