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DREAM OF THE HIGHLAND TIGER Felis silvestris grampia Pete Howard has worked in Nature Conservation for the past 20 years, mainly in species monitoring and protection for the RSPB. He lives in north Cumbria, where he is regional Bird Recorder and Vice Chair of the Cumbria Bird Club. He is also an irredeemable butterfly fanatic….

Alick Simmons is a veterinarian, naturalist and photographer.  He lives in Somerset. He has written six previous guest blogs here – click here. His Twitter handle: @alicksimmons I’m a conservation newbie, an ingenu trying to compensate for a terrifying lack of experience.  Although I’ve been a wildlife nut since my early teens (and a proud…

Tim writes: Wrynecks used to breed in Britain and in Victorian times were found in every county in England and Wales south of the Humber. But they had dwindled to extinction by the 1970s while a small population temporarily colonised Scotland, which was way outside its original range.  But I don’t think it has bred…

As you flick through the 1246 pages of ‘our’ Brexit deal you will hardly have got your eye in when you reach p179, and ‘Title XI, Article 1.1 LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR OPEN AND FAIR COMPETITION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT‘; So, already, we see that environmental protection is subsumed within the apparently bigger matters of trade….

I hope that all readers of this blog, whatever their views on life, have a safe and happy Christmas. That’s what I am planning too. This blog will be back with new content on Sunday 27 December – some guest blogs, several book reviews, poems, photographs, reviews of the year on this blog and thoughts…