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
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →A leaked government document reveals the scale of badger culling proposed for Derbyshire, undermining the country's most successful bTB vaccination programme.
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →Thanks for tuning in to my talk at the Gilbert White 300th birthday festival! Here are the links I promised.
Continue reading →Join me this Saturday to celebrate the 300th birthday of the first modern nature writer - Gilbert White
Continue reading →The otter is a symbol of hope for conservationists. Once lost from much of Britain, it has bounced back.
Continue reading →My forthcoming new book will include portrait essays of nine species. Together they tell the story of our relationship with the rest of nature.
Continue reading →I am pleased to confirm details of my forthcoming book, to be launched in the autumn
Continue reading →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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