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.
On this day in 1771 Gilbert White, whose 300th anniversary we celebrate this year, was thinking about migration. Exactly 245 years later I visited his home on my own spring journey.
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Gilbert White was the first modern nature writer, and his studies of less well-known species like the field cricket leave a lasting legacy.
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Gilbert White’s The Natural History of Selborne takes the form of 110 letters, 66 of which were addressed to Daines...
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I'm looking forward to speaking at three very different festivals coming up in October.
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My talks page has been updated with details of events scheduled for this autumn and winter, and into spring next year.
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From an insect whose courtship song suffuses the heathland soundscape, to a bird which has inspired more classical and romantic writing than any other, June looks like being a song-filled month.
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For an insect that spends almost all of its time underground, the field cricket has an elusive charisma, on account of its evocative 'song'. A unique event will celebrate this miniature sound-maker.
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On Saturday 6th April I will be speaking a conference along with other conservationists presenting personal views of the changing nature of conservation. I will argue that we need radical change, because our current conservation model isn't working.
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"If you are breaking the law, if the law is weak, if the law is flawed - we are coming for you"
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