It is tough to care, and it can lead to despair. As an environmentally conscious teen in the ’80s I cut my political teeth on animal welfare… Read more “Don’t despair, take action”
Bring the Cat Back to Britain
The rebalance of the natural world is pretty much impossible without keystone species such as lynx. The video below discusses some of the problems that returning lynx… Read more “Bring the Cat Back to Britain”
Community Wine Making!
I’m in! When is the tasting session? It turns out people are not only growing grapes in cities, they are also getting together to turn it into… Read more “Community Wine Making!”
Hero Rats
‘Mozambique is now land mine free’ and it is all thanks to trained rats. This magical sentence was uttered in a documentary by a man holding a… Read more “Hero Rats”
Plastic Teens
Watch out Pacific garbage patch The Ocean Cleanup has begun, last Sunday I watched the launch of System 001 from Alameda on a live stream with my… Read more “Plastic Teens”
A whole A-lotta-love
Let me tell you why I love my allotment – because growing food is only a tiny part of it. I came back from my allotment refreshed… Read more “A whole A-lotta-love”
Books and trophies
Take a look at the fabulous world of foxes and our chequered history with them.
Bringing lynx back to Britain
The lynx is closer than ever to returning to British forests
The truth about cats and dogs
More mundane than mystical, more cooperative than crafty, the closer we look the more we see
Fight and Flight
Every afternoon there is a fight in my garden in Portugal. It erupts without fail late afternoon in the shimmering heat. It does not stop until one… Read more “Fight and Flight”
Siobhan Mitchell 