Jack(5) and I (older) called in at Dungeness on Sunday. We played hide and seek with a white-tailed plover amongst the purple loosestrife. Eventually it stood still long enough for Jack to see it through the telescope – ‘it’s all browny...

The key to identifying and protecting our best places for wildlife starts with knowing what’s there. That can be quite tricky on land – at sea the challenge is even greater. Between now and the end of September Natural England are encouraging...

The Humber estuary cuts its way into the heart of England. It is a boundary and dividing line now crossed by the elegant span of the Humber bridge (now, I find, relegated to 5 th longest in the world). The thin link suspended above the turbid tides of...

Now would be a good time to dump the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO). This precipitate law was rushed through without the implications being fully understood (here’s a press release from 2008 setting out the story in more details). ...

The Thames is central to my world this week. On Tuesday I'll be at our Rainham Marshes nature reserve downstream of central London at Purfleet, still within sight of Canary Wharf. Led by TV presenter and Londoner Bill Oddie , we'll be celebrating...