Tag: Conservation

  • Sorrow and delight in the same breath: a quantum conundrum as a noctule #bat comes my way

    Ranger Gemma bought me a present this morning and since its very nearly my birthday I got excited. Then she produced a small plastic bag and out of it pulled this Noctule bat who had caught her last insect on the wing. Gemma had found her at  at Wisley Common and by the look of the…

  • The Essex Otter and The Mayfly Knight

    A week or so ago I found myself in Essex on the Rivers Colne and Stour http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=51.91318812737575&lon=0.8061829263453214&gz=11&oz=6&gt=1   I was meeting up with other otter ecologist colleagues from neighbouring counties where otters are few and far between to keep our hand in with surveying for otter and water vole signs. After about our third attempt at…

  • Back to Basics

    I spend every day of my life working as a conservation professional. I am one of the lucky few to have secured a full time position working for a conservation NGO. I consider myself incredibly lucky to be doing a job that I love, and like many of my colleagues I find it impossible to…

  • Through the Canopy, artwork by Kiri Jones

    I’m embarrassed by the shoddy quality of these photos taken on my mobile at Kiri’s open studio in Streatham, London this weekend but I had to share the excellent work my awesome talented sister is producing at the moment, even more amazing she finds the time as a fulltime mother of two young’uns. If you…

  • 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…