World Wetlands day falls today, Candlemas – 2 February. A day marked in Mediaeval weather-lore ‘If Candlemas Day be fair and clear, there’ll be five winters in the year’. Let’s hope not! February fill-dyke , the month...

They're teasing me. The birds I've seen from the windows of the east London home that I share with my family, have been more varied and higher in number than is usual. This can mean just one thing. The Big Garden Birdwatch is imminent. This...

This blog is filled with references to some of the top sites for wildlife in the UK, Europe or even at a global scale. But this weekend the focus is on that special place close to our own backdoors. Our gardens. It’s Big Garden Birdwatch weekend...

In the time of foot and mouth, when the countryside was closed I visited Dungeness . It felt like half the population of Kent was clinging to the furthest extremity of the county, evicted from more familiar landscapes. Dungeness is not like other...

One theme that should stand out from this blog is that protected areas are extremely important places! In the European Union, wildlife legislation – in the form of the Birds and Habitats Directives – has enabled real gains to be made for wildlife...