The following is a lightly edited version of an email I recently received from someone whose identity I know, and who I know to be a NE employee. Understandably their identity is not revealed here. The editing I have done is mostly to remove clues as to their identity. I work for NE. I’m writing…
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How to please an author
Occasionally, and obviously out of the blue, I get an email a bit like this. Just finished Inglorious. Thank you so much for writing this book. I am ‘relatively’ knowledgeable I feel about land use issues, but I learnt so much from you. I was rudely awakened as to the realities of the driven grouse…
What your MP says about the Manifesto for Wildlife
About a month ago a group of independent experts , under the leadership of Chris Packham, published a People’s Manifesto for Wildlife. Many of us have written to our MPs asking thenm for their views (not for a party politrical broadcast in favour of the current government) and those responses are slowly coming home to…
Hedgehog highways motor on!
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Hugh Warwick’s e-petition in favour of Hedgehog Highways is approaching a third of a million signatures! Fantastic work! Fantastic support! I regret that it isn’t on the Westminster parliament website because if it reached anything like that number there (which it might not for a variety of reasons) then it would have even more clout….
An opportunity
That nice Michael Gove wants to know what you think about National Parks in England (I think in England – I’ve only had a quick look). The consultation looks easy enouh to complete and we have ages to do so – two months. I’ll be coming back to this with some thoughts on how to…
Big Match fortnight ends midnight
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This Jaguar is looking at you for help. The Big Match fortnight ends at midnight tonight – any money you donate before then will be matched and therefore doubled. So now is, please, the time to donate to this project to protect Jaguar habitats and all the life that depends on it in northern Belize….
Jungle for Jaguars
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Andrew Langley’s fantastic fund-raising deal of a quadrupling of all donations has very, very nearly reached his target of £5000 – he’s just £70 short. And that means he is just £280 short of raising £20,000 for the World Land Trust’s Jungle for Jaguars appeal. I’m sure he’ll get that £70 very soon. The Big…
On the road – a patch of grass
On the road – a distant view of Walshaw Moor
The Well-read Naturalist
I’ve been remiss in checking what John Riutta, The Well-read Naturalist, has been reading and blogging about recently so this is a catch-up. All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison. John has beaten me to reviewing this new novel from Melissa Harrison. But having read this review, and having met the author once (and smiled,…