Nature Premium Campaign
2022-03-24
A new campaign seeks to ensure regular time in nature for all children and young people. Please take part …Continue Reading
England’s National Parks 2.0
2022-01-02
England’s National Parks are no longer fit for purpose. Even before the climate emergency, their lack of naturalness is impeding attempts to halt declining biodiversity, but now there is a real urgency to renew thinking towards our 10 National Parks. We need a new version for our National Parks, a version 2.0.Continue Reading
Coppice Story 2021
2021-04-01
It is ten years since I started following the life of an ash coppice stool. A return visit finds the tree still alive but much of its regrowth dead from ash dieback.Continue Reading
Ten Golden Rules for Reforestation
2021-01-26
A paper published recently has presented ‘ten golden rules’ which the authors say should be followed to help deliver sustainable reforestation around the world.Continue Reading
A List of Environmental Specialists
2021-01-16
More than 50 interesting and unusual names for environmental specialists and experts in the natural world from acarologist to zoologistContinue Reading
Forest Cover in Europe
2020-10-10
Forest cover varies hugely across Europe, from 74% in Finland to 11% in the Netherlands. Overall, 46% of Europe is covered with forests, storing 172Gt of carbon.Continue Reading
Climate Matching Tool Launched
2020-06-06
Two UK government bodies responsible for the care of trees and forests have released a new tool to illustrate projected climate change for anywhere in Europe.Continue Reading
Do environmental worldviews and distrust in science affect those who care for our land?
2020-06-02
This is the title of a guest blog that I wrote for BMC, part of the Springer group of academic publishers, published today. Continue Reading
Inequality of Woodland Distribution across Britain
2020-05-31
People in Britain have less trees than in many countries, but within the country 34 million citizens have even less due to inequality in woodland distributionContinue Reading
Discover Your Environmental Self
2020-05-03
Are you a Musketeer, Team Player, Funambulist, Existentialist or Realist? Discover your own ECOTYPE and find out how you compare to others in this exciting new measure of environmental citizenship.Continue Reading
Ash or Oak?
2020-04-06
Which tree is out in leaf first near you – the ash or the oak? Don’t let Covid-19 get in the way of some good citizen science.Continue Reading
Environmental Land Management policy development
2020-02-25
The UK Department of Environmental Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a policy discussion document as part of their stakeholder engagement process in developing the Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM or ELMs). Government is seeking the views of farmers, foresters, and other land managers in its new proposals forContinue Reading
Search to help forests in Australia
2020-01-21
Regular readers will know that I support the ethical search engine Ecosia, which plants trees around the world, using funding raised by people using its alternative offering to some of the better known search providers. This Thursday, 23rd January, all Ecosia searches will help plant trees in Australia. It will use 100%Continue Reading
You People
2020-01-10
I was inspired to write the poem You People after following a one-sided vitriolic ‘debate’ on Twitter last year. Continue Reading
Show Your Climate Stripes
2019-07-03
Thanks to a clever idea by scientists at the University of Reading, you see how much average temperatures have risen where you live as part of an international campaign to highlight the importance of climate science. You can then ‘show your climate stripes.’Continue Reading
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