Wildlife

Bobby Tulloch's Shetland

Bobby Tulloch's book Shetland: An Islander, His Islands and Their Wildlife, first published in 1988, unfortunately, is no longer in...

Loving The Natural World and Being Vegetarian

Loving The Natural World and Being Vegetarian Firstly, to be clear from the outset, what follows is not an argument for or against...

A Reply to Bill Oddie

Reading Bill Oddie’s article ‘I don’t believe it!’ in Birdwatch (January 2019; issue 319) got me thinking about evolution. I am not...

Adonis Blues on Ranmore Common

Otherwise known as Denbies Hillside, Ranmore Common comprises both mixed woodland and substantial stretches of chalk downland; it is the...

Evolution & Rethinking Conservation

It is frequently believed that the practice of wildlife conservation is determined by science. Amidst the recent escalation of debates conce