NATURE
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Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 5 by Nick MacKinnon – Mark Avery
Photo: Lydia MacKinnon Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in…
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Sunday book review – Wild Service edited by Nick Hayes and Jon Moses – Mark Avery
You should take it as a measure of my fairness that even though I think large parts of this book…
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Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 54 by Nick MacKinnon – Mark Avery
Photo: Lydia MacKinnon Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in…
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What to think about Hen Harrier numbers – Mark Avery
To make sense of the figures for 2023 UK Hen Harrier numbers, released today by RSPB, they need to be…
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Guest blog – The Midhope track by Bob Berzins – Mark Avery
Bob Berzins is a campaigner and activist. His previous guests blogs here all focus on the management, or mismanagement, of…
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Sunday book review – Cairn by Kathleen Jamie – Mark Avery
Kathleen Jamie is Scotland’s National Poet or Makar, and this book is a collection of personal notes, prose poems,…
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Shotswitch – not much switching after 4 years
The annual examination of the claims made by the shooting industry over their good faith in removing lead shot from…
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Sunday book review – The Mushroom Guide and Identifier by Peter Jordan and Neville Kilkenny – Mark Avery
Mushrooms are fascinating for so many reasons, but not the least of them is that you can eat many of…
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Being a conservation investor – 2, The National Trust – Mark Avery
My latest book, Reflections, proposes that we all consider ourselves as conservation investors. Here, I wonder whether I should invest…
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Being a conservation investor: 1, Introduction
In my book Reflections I make the point that a revival of wildlife in the UK will require political action:…
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