Spring Reflection: A birdhouse makes a home
Author and naturalist Helen Macdonald reflects on creating homes for nesting birds, and the joy she gets in return
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A court battle to ensure that animals are legally recognised as people is raising fundamental questions about what it means to be human.
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Into the woods: should UK cropland be replaced by forest?
It is hard to walk through any British woods without a sense of nostalgia creeping in under your feet; inherited memories…
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It took the arrival of a young man in a pickup truck to remind me that March is mulch month
A young man parked a heavily laden pickup in the village one afternoon recently and a few minutes later appeared…
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I’ve always loved flamingos, but had no idea they were once found in Staffordshire
After particularly grand storms, that is.
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Winter reflection: A barn owl, fallen from the skies
The white bird lies on newspaper in the passageway, black-eyed, breathtakingly beautiful, utterly unmarked.
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Mounting an animal’s head on your wall is a funny way to show how much you revere its beauty
No amount of PR can disguise how different subsistence hunting is from its more leisurely cousin.
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The legacy of the Essex deluge
What the great flood of January 1953 that devastated the East Coast and left 300 people dead can tell us…
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