Record-breaking bird sighting on Brownsea Island A rare sighting of the largest flock of Spoonbills ever seen in Britain has been recorded on the Brownsea Island Lagoon in Dorset. http://bit.ly/1y6tgHX Paul Morton from the Birds of Poole Harbour charity, said: “To have 47 spoonbill in the harbour is a ...read more →
Meadow pipit (c) Margaret Holland Wildlife wonders from magical meadows Attention-grabbing insects steal the show in summer – bright blue butterflies, burnished burnet moths and rattling grasshoppers – but how many of us look for other surprising stars of the sunshine? The Wildlife Trusts offer 10 top meadow ...read more →
New evidence of vanishing grasslands One of my first experiences with what was then called the Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation (now the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust) was to witness the destruction of 60 acres of the finest Cotswold grassland by an owner who believed that ‘Cereal Quotas’ were imminent and ...read more →
Badger vaccination in the control of bovine TB From Fridge to Field This is a reworking of my October 3rd talk to the ZSL workshop on the contribution of badger and cattle vaccination in the control of bovine TB. Two major pieces of scientific research by Chambers et al and ...read more →
Philippa Lyons joined BBOWT as Head of Marketing and Communications for the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) in Sept 1990 before being appointed Chief Executive in 2004. During her twenty three years at the Trust it has grown from an annual income of c. £270k to c. £5m, ...read more →
Gannet copyright Gordon McGlone PhotoNatura Government is not in tune with Nature I grew up in Southampton in a working class family with no car, few books and no wildlife mentor. I discovered the world around me for myself, clambering over rubble heaps looking for lizards or digging for rag ...read more →
Doesn’t sound quite right does is it – the call of the re-wild? It does to George Monbiot whose new book Feral is making waves with wildlife conservation thinkers and farmers alike. The Wildlife Trusts have a very good piece on this subject on their site. George’s thesis is simple; ...read more →