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Phil Pickin: Multitasking

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Every year, organisations monitoring everything from bird migrations to climate change rely on observations and survey reports from people like us to help them build up databases. You can’t have failed to notice the media coverage of the RSPB’s Big [...]

Tags: conservation, Environment, Phil Picken, wild
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Landmark law opens up English coast

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Hundreds of miles of inaccessible and out-of-bounds coastline are set to be permanently opened up to the public for the first time under the new Marine and Coastal Access Act…

Adopt a beach

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Looking for something a little different to do this weekend? Why not pitch in at your local beach to help clean up a stretch of Britain’s shoreline…

Designer living

Monday, September 14th, 2009

A stylish new addition to the London Wetland Centre in Barnes was unveiled today – the city’s first architect-designed bat house…

Tags: bats, conservation, London, wetlands
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Phil Pickin: Seeing red

Friday, September 11th, 2009

You’d be hard pressed to have missed the media reports on the plight of the red squirrel. The fact that it’s cute, small and photogenic certainly helps to attract public interest, but it’s their continued hounding from native habitats by [...]

The butterflies are back

Friday, September 11th, 2009

One of Britain’s most threatened butterfly species has seen a surge in numbers this summer…

Tags: conservation, Dartmoor, Exmoor
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Green peaks

Friday, September 11th, 2009

The Peak District Sustainable Development Fund has awarded a series of grant to create community orchards, a new woodland walk and wildflower meadows around schools…

Stop the slaughter

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Seeing a bird of prey circling high in the sky is an inspiring sight, but these featured guardians of the countryside are still under threat – despite being protected by law for the past 50 years…

Tags: birds, conservation, Wildlife
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Phil Pickin: Ratty’s return

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

It looks like things are looking up for Britain’s water voles.

This compact and furry little animal was the model for Ratty in The Wind in The Willows. But, sadly, since the 1990s its numbers have fallen from around seven million [...]

Return of the Ospreys

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

For the first time in at least 200 years, ospreys are nesting and are believed to have had chicks in Northumberland. A long-term project to encourage the iconic species to return to the region has resulted in a pair of birds nesting on a platform in Kielder Water & Forest Park…

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