Pony poo for conservation at RSPB headquarters Six Dartmoor ponies are joining the team at RSBP headquarters, The Lodge nature reserve Through their grazing, trampling, and poo, they will be helping to restore the space for invertebrates and birds Dartmoor ponies are a particularly hardy native endangered breed RSPB headquarters have welcomed six new team…
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Guest blog – Wild beyond beavers on the Highland edge by Beatrice Searle
I am Beatrice. I am an artist and writer based in Scotland. Since co-curating the Rewind/Rewild exhibition and forum in 2019, I have been lucky enough to work with the Ramsay family from time to time on the creation of Bamff Wildland, in Perthshire. I have written up the story of our meeting before but…
This blog (7) – guest blogs
This blog will downshift after its 10th birthday on Wednesday – but I will still be happy to publish guest blogs at weekends when I will also continue with a few blog posts of my own and book reviews for the next six months, until 21 October, when I’ll decide whether this blog has a…
This blog (6) – your comments
A blog without comments looks like it isn’t read or doesn’t interest the world. Over the last decade this blog has received just under 76,000 comments on its over 8,000 blog posts – in round numbers that’s around 20 comments a day and getting on for 10 comments per post. I’ve read every single one…
Seven weeks and 125,000 signatures
We are, by my calculations, exactly half way through this joint petition calling for a wildife-saving amendment to the Environment Bill and we have reached half way to the figure that I regard as respectable – a quarter of a million signatures. Last week produced 11,000 signatures which isn’t bad, and another seven weeks of…