Guest blog – Is it really too late to save the Scottish wildcat? by Dominic Woodfield

Dominic Woodfield is the Managing Director of Bioscan, a long established and well-respected consultancy specialising in applied ecology. He is not a wildcat specialist, but has significant experience of working with rare and protected species and is currently instructed by Wildcat Haven to advise on regulatory and ecological matters, including on the methodology for their…

From the Unusual Christmas Gifts Company

Dear Sir Thank you for your enquiry regarding potential gift orders this Christmas.  Your true love is certainly going to have a festive season to remember!  Here at the Unusual Christmas Gifts Company we like to believe that we live up to our name and we go to enormous lengths to source special and dramatic…

Guest blog – Nature Writing and Gender by Daphne Pleace

Daphne’s bio and work can be seen at www.daphnepleace.co.uk. In brief, she describes herself as an elder, writer, facilitator and lifelong learner, gone feral, wandering about in nature whenever she’s allowed out. Twitter: @DaphnePleace Nature Writing and Gender: 12 ‘different’ books by women Many of the (published) ‘nature’ books women have been writing these last…

Tim Melling – Lammergeier

Tim writes: some years ago I served on the British Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee (BOURC) which assesses and maintains the official list of British birds.  Category A of the British List is for any truly wild bird that arrived in Britain naturally.   An immature Lammergeier ranged widely in Devon during May 2016 but this has…