Drawn to Nature: The Natural World, Visual Art & Written Word
When recruiting for a Personal Assistant in 2019, Pallant House Gallery director Simon Martin was inspired by one interviewee’s enthusiastic response to a set…
Wildlife
The Rights of Marine Animals – Chris Armstrong
Chris Armstrong’s book, A Blue New Deal, now in paperback, is an urgent account of the state of our oceans today – and what…
Synthetic Biology and Nature-Based Solutions
Kent H. Redford and William M. Adams, the authors of Strange Natures: Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology, explain why synthetic biology and…
Coral Reefs – beauty and wonder lie within superficially simple stories about their residents
Anyone who has watched one or two documentaries about coral reefs will have heard about cleaning stations. A number of small fish species and…
Five Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know About Biological Invasions
Award-winning adventure and science journalist, Leslie Anthony, offers five things you (maybe) didn’t know about the burgeoning environmental phenomenon that is the rapidly growing…
17 Suprising Facts About Trees – by Fiona Stafford
Fiona Stafford, author of the charmingly illustrated The Long, Long Life of Trees, explores the many ways in which humans interact with trees, celebrating our long…
The Narrow Edge: Bay of Plenty
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey follows the extraordinary migration of red knots (tiny sandpipers weighing no more than…
Flight to the Arctic: The Narrow Edge
The rufa red knot sandpiper and the common horseshoe crab, two relatively unassuming creatures, are the focus of a fascinating new book by Deborah Cramer, The…
Voices of the Wild – Echoes from a Soundscape Ecologist
Article by Bernie Krause, author of Voices of the Wild ‘While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a soundscape is worth a…
Six Surprising Owl Facts
By Tony Angell, author of The House of Owls — To most of us owls are mysterious and elusive creatures of the night. That they…
Back to the Garden: Books For Summer 2015
Summer is fast approaching, and while we can keep our fingers crossed that June and July will be as delightful as last year, as…
The Narrow Edge: Tracking the Red Knot
Deborah Cramer has spent the last few years following a relatively unknown and unassuming shorebird, the red knot. Her new book, The Narrow Edge:…
Hawthorn – 10 facts about one of our oldest plant companions
‘There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.’ – P. D. James Hawthorns, a group…
10 Commandments of Bird Watching
Yale’s latest avian title offers advice about the best ways in which we can share our gardens and neighbourhoods with our feathered friends. Here, we take a closer…