Category: General
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Evidence of Otter recovery in South East boosted by @SurreyWT and @UniOfSurrey trap-camera pictures
A great moment this week when we discovered that one of our “OtterCams” had finally captured a picture of an otter on the Surrey side of the border with Hampshire. Whilst the otter recovery across the UK- a welcome antidote to the gloom presented by the recent State of Nature report- has seen all counties…
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If it moves, ID it; and if it stays still, ID it too! #BioBlitz! Wisley and Ockham Commons @SurreyWT
457 Species and counting! I love Bioblitz! Not all of my time is spent out and about on Surrey’s rivers or wetlands searching for the illusive otter and water vole, or creeping along my beloved hedgerows for dormice, stoat or orange-spotted elm-lichen. So when the moment arrives when I can spend 24 hours in the…
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The Emperor’s Nightingale- a cautionary tale in a week when biodiversity offsetting hit the headlines.
The Nightingale by Hans Christian AndersenIllustrated by Edmund Dulac I’m reproducing this here as a cautionary tale in a week when biodiversity offsetting hit the headlines. We may think we can recreate new habitats from scratch in new locations, but we loose something in doing so, something that may not always be clear…
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Priorities
Apparently there is going to be a crises shortly about feeding our growing population. And yet we are wasting half of all the food we produce. Some man on a bicycle, who will die in a relatively short time and be forgotten entirely called some one a pleb. Prioritise
James T Jones 