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November was very warm on our planet – 0.97°C above the twentieth century average and the warmest November on record. In the UK the highest night-time temperature record was broken and it looks like we might be heading towards a record December too.  A couple of nights ago the lowest recorded night-time temperatutre across recording…

I look forward to British Wildlife dropping through the letterbox every couple of months. The December issue is well-timed to be well-read over the Christmas break. Peter Marren writes about the threat to the NHM garden (you read it here first?) and I write about the twelve days of Christmas. There is a letter from…

On Tuesday afternoon I attended the launch of the latest ‘State of the UK’s Butterflies report‘ – an excellent report authored by Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.  This is the fourth in a series of reports which charts the status of our butterflies every few years. More species are declining than…

I spoke at the Idle Valley Nature Reserve on Friday – I wasn’t idle at all. It was fun for me – I hope the audience enjoyed it too.  It seemed that they did. Arriving early I was shown around parts of this massive nature reserve which is based on former mineral workings and has…