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Other Herbicides are Available
The world continues to obsess about glyphosate: The EU has announced that it is likely to renew the licence to…

Native…or Not…
One of the slides in my current presentation shows a river frontage in what appears to be a very ‘natural…

The Little Lord
When I was young I used to see magnificent pictures in my father’s geographical magazine about far away countries and…

Rabbits and Sycamore Trees
Rabbits and sycamore trees …what’s the connection? Most of you will have got the link – they are both ‘alien’…

The ‘Penny Dreadful’ novels
Inspired by the Penny Dreadful novels of the Victorian era, JKSL have produced a limited edition run of our very…
Problem? What problem….?
When the scientists talk about Alien species doing ‘harm’ – what is it they are actually talking about? The 8th…

Penny Pinching
My mum is 88 years old and doesn’t drive. She pretty much stopped driving about twenty years ago following an…

Funding…. What is left for the Environment
Working for Natural England I became used to the annual ebbs and flows of environmental funding and watched as over…

Small Data
I’m a fan of data. Ever since I learned how to make graphs on Excel at school, I have enjoyed…

Darwin Clough
Can you even begin to imagine what Darwin went through when he was coming up with his book ‘Origin of…

Floody Hell….
Watching the news over the Christmas holidays I spotted some footage of an area that I recognised – the footbridge…

I’m sorry but I haven’t budgeted for this…..
If I had a quid for every time somebody said….‘I’m sorry but I just haven’t budgeted for Japanese knotweed removal…