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I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Over the past 19 days I have dipped into some of the sustainability issues which should focus the minds...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Over the last 18 days I have dipped into the state of the world’s natural resources – its...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. I think I’m pretty good at recycling compared with the people who live in my street. I used to...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. One day last year I drove into New York City in a deluge. An American evangelist had predicted that...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The American ecologist Jared Diamond wrote of introduced alien species as one of the ecological horsemen...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. This year marks the 50 th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring which...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. I am, unashamedly, an enthusiast for wildlife, for wild places and for the natural world. Although personal...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. At the forthcoming Rio+20 conference , delegates will talk about economic growth, increasing development...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. I wish there were a tropical coral reef along the south coast of England. If there were, I’d learn...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. I’ve always thought that Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner was a gloomy poem. The...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Most of us don’t have much to do with food production although if we are lucky enough to have...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. It is unclear when the first person got to the North Pole , but it may well have been Roald Amundsen...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Today is World Oceans Day ; the 21 st since the first one at the Earth Summit in 1992. We live on...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The trouble with rainforests is you can’t make much money out of leaving them alone. Yes, they...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. If you have had an eye on nature for the last few decades then you are likely to have noticed changes...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Everywhere you go you see wildlife, but some places are better than others. A cornerstone of nature...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. This time last year, I drove west through the USA, and near the 100 th meridian, soon after I crossed...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Twenty years ago when the world last met in Rio, the UK Prime Minister, John Major, and his Environment...

I've handed the reins of my blog over to Mark Avery for most of June. Mark's sharing the successes and challenges of saving nature around the world in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. As far as we know Earth is the only place with life in the universe. At any rate, we can be sure that...