The butterfly effect
Two new books show how human agency is eroding the basic fabric of European wildlife.
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It is an ecological evil that hares are slaughtered by landowners seeking to protect their profits
This butchery is perpetrated because the animals are thought to carry a viral disease – but there is no hard evidence to support…
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Roy Dennis’s Restoring the Wild chronicles 60 years of rewilding Britain
Now 81, Dennis is possibly the UK’s most senior and influential conservationist you may never have heard of.
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In gardening, the pursuit of perfection is fruitless; we should embrace nature’s wonkiness
If I have learnt anything in 40 years of writing about horticulture, it's that “perfect” produce is a meaningless ideal that…
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Watching Netflix’s My Octopus Teacher, I wonder why we like to imagine animals are our friends
Must we see something of ourselves in animals – read our emotions into their behaviour, attribute to them a level of…
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My lockdown nostalgia
How I miss the sunny lockdown mornings of late spring last year, when I frogmarched my two children to the…
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In the quiet of lockdown, bucolic memories return – of wildflowers discovered in surprising places
I may never have seen the Taj Mahal by moonlight, but I have walked in a wood carpeted with anemones, somewhere…
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Some look to their calendars for the start of spring – but I see it in a clump of yellow primulas
I am convinced the primula is the spring flower of my affections, but be warned: it requires constant attention.
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