Before I get too far in to writing this article I have a confession to make. I am not a golfer. I have never played golf. The closest I have come to doing so was at the age of six when I discovered a set of ancient clubs in the cellar of my childhood houseContinueContinue reading “Are golf courses an opportunity for conservation?”
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Switch your search engine: an easy way to save the planet?
On average, Google processes over 6.5 billion searches per day and over 67% of our overall searches go through their system. Their closest competitor, Bing processes just over 870 million searches per day. Whenever we click on an ad through these searches we send advertising cash to the company. If only there was a companyContinueContinue reading “Switch your search engine: an easy way to save the planet?”
”And A Partridge in a Pear Tree”…but how are the birds really doing?
One of the most famous festive carols has to be ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, in which a very fortunate person is gifted some extraordinary things, ranging from nine ladies dancing to five gold rings and twelve drummers drumming. Within this list of generosity are a number of birds, but if someone was actually tryingContinueContinue reading “”And A Partridge in a Pear Tree”…but how are the birds really doing?”
David Attenborough’s message to the world in Planet Earth II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aFcHFu8QM Yesterday evening, I and millions of others watched the finale of Planet Earth II, the latest masterpiece to come out of the BBC’s natural history unit. The subject focus was on cities and urban spaces and it was incredible to watch the ingenuity of many species which have adapted to this new human influenced environment. Despite theContinueContinue reading “David Attenborough’s message to the world in Planet Earth II”
A Farming and Conservation Partnership Success Story: The Cirl Bunting
According to the State of Nature report released earlier this year 12 out of the 26 breeding farmland birds are red listed (the highest category of risk of further decline or even extinction). Since 1970 the number of farmland birds has declined by 54%. Although it must be mentioned that since the early 1990s, when conservationContinueContinue reading “A Farming and Conservation Partnership Success Story: The Cirl Bunting”
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