Your Saving Special Places blog will be off to London shortly and I will blogging from the launch event of State of Nature at the Natural History Museum. Here’s some links from today’s media coverage the Guardian , BBC Online and the Daily...

Today is the start of the two day European Maritime Day Conference , which is being held in Malta this year. This annual event is organised by the European Commission (Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries) to encourage better stewardship...

“So we’re probably looking at a 5:30am start......”, cue silence at my end of the phone. Toby, one of RSPB’s conservation officers for the Inner Forth area, had agreed to help me out with a breeding bird survey in Bo’ness...

So the perks of my job mean that I get to spend some days out of the office with some wonderful volunteers. The place in question is Newport Wetlands Visitor Centre and the wonderful volunteers are 20 corporate volunteers from the Office for National...