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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. 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...