Rabbits and sycamore trees …what’s the connection? Most of you will have got the link – they are both ‘alien’ species which shouldn’t really be in this country. From a botanical perspective Sycamore is…
Inspired by the Penny Dreadful novels of the Victorian era, JKSL have produced a limited edition run of our very own gripping fictional novels! The ‘Penny Dreadful’ was a publishing phenomenon in the 19th…
When the scientists talk about Alien species doing ‘harm’ – what is it they are actually talking about? The 8th Convention on Biological Diversity asked for … action to…’prevent the introduction of those alien…
My mum is 88 years old and doesn’t drive. She pretty much stopped driving about twenty years ago following an incident with a stationary lorry which she … ‘just didn’t see’. Whilst dad was…
Working for Natural England I became used to the annual ebbs and flows of environmental funding and watched as over the years the arena changed from that of plenty to that of none. Cuts…
I’m a fan of data. Ever since I learned how to make graphs on Excel at school, I have enjoyed playing about with spreadsheets and processing information. It wasn’t long ago that I read…
Can you even begin to imagine what Darwin went through when he was coming up with his book ‘Origin of the Species”…? Here we have a man who has spent years studying plants and…
Watching the news over the Christmas holidays I spotted some footage of an area that I recognised – the footbridge by Asda in Radcliffe. The clip showed the river rising and destroying the bridge…