Category: General
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Otters and water voles in Surrey: i do like a challenge, me
Sadly last week we said goodbye to Chris Matcham, the SWT Otters and Rivers Project Officer who has retired to his home in Hampshire. Its doubtful whether he will be idle for long though, with a new project proposal in the off-ing. It just means he doesn’t have to drive into work anymore. Otters have…
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The immorality of wage Increases: an off-topic rant!
Not Cleaning Okay I should be cleaning the flat and going through unpaid bills and doing all the domestic stuff I have put off recently but I just can’t get this out of my head. The top 100 FT companies have increased their Chief Executive pay packets by 50%. It hit me like a bullet…
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Shermans, Slugs and the “Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie”
Thundry Meadows, Surrey: SWT Harvest Mice Survey Day 2 I am prepared to deal with most things I would find in a small mammal trap but this morning, still only half awake, I was not ready for the two enormous slugs that had taken up residence in the Sherman trap. They lay side by side along…
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Some thoughts on resilience in natural and human landscapes
Fragmentation affects people as well as landscapes. Connectivity is important for personal resilience as much as it is for biodiversity in a landscape. Isolation can lead to the extinction of an individual as much as a species. Isolation of a species in a woodland for instance can be mitigated by increasing connectivity by planting hedgerows. For people, connections need to…
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Hedgerow heaven
James T Jones 