This is where I share updates on my writing and conservation work, thoughts on topical conservation issues, and news about nature and the artists who are inspired by it. Sometimes I blog about other stuff, too.
To mark the publication on Monday of Framing Nature - conservation and culture, this long-read essay compiles edited excerpts on the subject of extinction and loss
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To commemorate Vulture Awareness Day and to mark the launch later this month of my next book, I am starting a new occasional series of essays. This one focuses on the vulture crisis that began in India and now threatens entire populations of vultures across Asia, Africa and Europe.
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A leaked government document reveals the scale of badger culling proposed for Derbyshire, undermining the country's most successful bTB vaccination programme.
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The white-tailed eagle is a great conservation success story, but a lingering hatred for raptors on the grouse moors of the Cairngorms remains a threat.
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Thanks for tuning in to my talk at the Gilbert White 300th birthday festival! Here are the links I promised.
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Join me this Saturday to celebrate the 300th birthday of the first modern nature writer - Gilbert White
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The otter is a symbol of hope for conservationists. Once lost from much of Britain, it has bounced back.
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My forthcoming new book will include portrait essays of nine species. Together they tell the story of our relationship with the rest of nature.
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This morning (4 May) I went out into a drizzly dawn to listen to the defining sounds of the spring dawn - and to read my latest work in progress to the birds.
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I am pleased to confirm details of my forthcoming book, to be launched in the autumn
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