NATURE
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Sunday book review – The Little Book of Fungi by Britt A. Bunyard – Mark Avery
It’s autumn and this weekend is Fungus Day in the UK and so one’s mind turns to the Kingdom of…
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Press release by Trees for Life – UK ‘return’ for ancient aurochs – Mark Avery
UK ‘return’ for ancient aurochs 400 years after European extinction Huge wild cattle could be ‘back from the dead’ to…
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RSPB press release – Tiny wasp helps protect island bird species threatened with extinction – Mark Avery
Tiny wasp helps protect island bird species threatened with extinction Nightingale Island. Photo: David Kinchin-Smith One of the world’s rarest…
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Guest blog – The Faroe Islands’ Grindadráp: whose business is it? by Alick Simmons – Mark Avery
Alick Simmons. Photo: Stuart Reeves Alick Simmons spent most of his career in public service serving as the UK Food…
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Guest blog – How donations to World Land Trust can be Multiplied Four Times by Andy Langley – Mark Avery
Andy Langley is a wildlife enthusiast and supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), who will be doing a sponsored birdwatch…
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RSPB in some trouble – Mark Avery
Indications have been growing for some months that the RSPB is in trouble but it’s no use hiding it any…
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Illegal use of lead ammunition to shoot Mallards continues – Mark Avery
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749124014702 This paper looks at lead pellets retrieved from shot Mallards in the 2020/21 shooting season at a time long…
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Guest blog – Viewers May Find Scenes in This Nature Programme Upsetting by Beth Richardson – Mark Avery
Beth is a Sussex-based nature writer who has enjoyed writing for websites, local newspapers and monthly regional and charity magazines.…
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Sunday book review – The Migration Ecology of Birds (2nd edition) by Ian Newton – Mark Avery
This second edition of a book first published in 2008 is a masterwork (but its price is beyond most individual…
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Guest blog – We need to talk about ALAN by Jonathan Wallace – Mark Avery
After studying zoology at university Jonathan was involved in ornithological research and conservation for a number of years in France,…
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