Conservation

Sep 8, 20223 min

Dear Ranil

Congratulations. It is not every day one wakes up with a salary of £98,000, and then turns the bedside light off sixteen hours later...

Sep 4, 20223 min

Two Hobbies

All the way down eastern European rivers such as the Danube and the Elbe are buried so-called ‘hunger stones’, laid down during droughts...

Aug 20, 20224 min

Pity Martha

At around 1.00 pm on September 1st 1914, Martha breathed her last in the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, aged 29. That was it. After her...

Jun 25, 20223 min

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know

We live in interesting and annoying times, and I have to admit that my ostrich-like reaction to them has been not to have watched the...

Nov 30, 20213 min

Tonight, you can change the world.

Just how weird these times are is underscored by the fact that, when I took treats out to the three Border Leicester sheep I am looking...

Nov 21, 20212 min

Why go?

The last time I flew anywhere was 21 months ago, when I came back soaked and knackered from a hectic week of bird research off County...

Oct 29, 20212 min

A Small Prick

The next two weeks or so are really quite important for the future of our planet, for us, and for the people who share it with us. We may...

Oct 20, 20213 min

We are running out of Trevors

According to the Living Planet Index, who track population moves among 4,000 vertebrate species, there has been a 68% decline between...

Oct 17, 20213 min

My Earthshot Entry for 2022

Hopefully, you’ve just been watching Prince William’s Earthshot awards on BBC1, in which the first of ten years worth of £1 million...