Is your MP in this list – mine isn’t?

The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development is happening right now (I’ve been blogging about it for the RSPB over the last 20 days). Stop Climate Chaos produced a Rio declaration and I asked my MP, Louise Mensch to sign up.  I got a good detailed reply from Ms Mensch but I noticed that she didn’t…

The toad that croaked

Yesterday was an anniversary – I don’t think many people noticed it. Does it matter that a small, bright, shiny toad was last seen on Earth on 15 May 1989 – does extinction matter? The golden toad was only discovered in the Monte Verde cloud forests of Costa Rica in 1966, by herpetologist Jay Savage…