This is why I wrote Endemic. It’s a journey via thirty or so British endemics, the stories of their discovery, the dedicated people working to conserve them, and as a way to raise the profile of the species found nowhere else on the planet.
Available now: https://t.co/R6MPsZK9Rd
After four years of research, writing and editing (and procrastination, terror and imposter syndrome), my first book, Endemic, has now been released to the world.
But also, in part, I think conservation is a beauty contest. It is perfectly understandable that people want to donate money to a project for the cute or showy, but I also think we need to do the conservation work that needs to be done for the small, subtle and shy.
Exotic animals are frequently used on #Imacelebrity, and over its many seasons animals have been crushed, eaten, confined to cramped spaces. We have serious concerns OFCOM is failing in its regulatory duties.
Read our insight ���https://t.co/9um1EHWP20
#AnimalLaw
Our next @daera_ni funded Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project webinar is on Tuesday 10th December:
'An Introduction to the Horsetails of Fermanagh, Ireland, and the UK'
Horsetails are weird looking and simply awesome, so grab a ticket now:
https://t.co/81UGeYjhh1
This free series of webinars starts on Tuesday 5th with 'Getting started with Plant and Leaf Anatomy'. The whole series of our @daera_ni funded talks can be seen and booked from here: https://t.co/nO2kQwpqkw
I've only just discovered that there's a set of superb Danish books on bugs (Miridae, Lygaeidae and shieldbugs) and lacewings freely downloadable from
https://t.co/UNywuL3IEH. Very generous! In Danish, but amazing pics
@JimSmar98556729@PeteMRCooper If you watched and listened very carefully then you could see shooting taking place closely followed by the discussion of shooting of a bird of prey.