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Showing posts with label rewilding. Show all posts
8 Jun 2022

Anti-Human Reflections on the Red-Billed Leiothrix

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Leiothrix lutea     I.    In a country in which insect numbers have fallen a staggering 65% in the last twenty years and other factors, such...
17 Feb 2022

The Tragic Tale of Two Dead Sea Eagles (and a Tory MP)

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This eagle is no more. He has ceased to be ... (Image: Dorset Police)     It was bad enough when a pioneering project to reintroduce (over a...
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14 Oct 2020

In Memory of Martin White: the Man Who Loved Butterflies

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Martin White inspecting a homemade butterfly breeding pod Photo: Fabio de Paola / The Guardian (2020)     Patrick Barkham's piece in Th...
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26 Jul 2020

Post 1500: Reflections on the Extinct British Wolf and the Triumph of the Sheep

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Illustration of a wolf in George Shaw's   Musei Leveriani (1729) I. This is post 1500: a number which means nothing to me, b...
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17 Dec 2019

And Winner, of the 2019 Torpedo the Ark Award, is ...

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Micromys minutus ... Wendy Fail, for her successful attempt to reintroduce harvest mice to Northumberland. As a doctoral student...
7 Mar 2019

Oostvaardersplassen: Animal Utopia or Animal Concentration Camp?

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Rewilding means ... reacquainting ourselves with death I. Even Isabella Tree has to admit that the experimental nature reserve ...
5 Mar 2019

Wilding: In Praise of the Knepp Farm Project

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Cover design by Neil Lang (Picador, 2018) I. Author Isabella Tree and her husband, the conservationist Charlie Burrell, are founde...
6 Nov 2017

On the Question of Rewilding the UK (with Reference to the Case of Lilleth the Lynx)

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An escaped Eurasian lynx called Lilleth - on the run from a zoo near Aberystwyth after leaping over an electrified fence - has been e...