20 06, 2021

Rewilding and Floristic Novelty

By |2021-06-28T20:25:59+00:00June 20th, 2021|Blog, Ecospace, Natural Assets, Protected Areas, Rewilding, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Rewilding and Floristic Novelty

On a June evening I took a walk in Urquhart Bay Wood on the shores of Loch Ness.  The main trail took me down to the confluence of two burns.  Relaxing a while, I watched a chaffinch fluttering up from a shingle bank and snaping up aquatic flies that were congregation under overhanging foliage.  As

15 05, 2021

Eye of the Vulture

By |2021-05-15T16:11:06+00:00May 15th, 2021|21st Century conservation, birdwatching, Blog, Ecospace, People & nature, Rewilding, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Eye of the Vulture

During the lockdown summer of 2020 an immature bearded vulture took up residence in a rugged Valley of England's Peak District National Park. On a September Sunday, my birding buddy Steve and I set out at the crack of dawn and programmed WAZE to navigate us North. Three hours later we descended a windy road

12 06, 2020

Rewilding: the radical new science of ecological recovery

By |2020-08-30T17:08:53+00:00June 12th, 2020|21st Century conservation, Ecospace, Natural Assets, Naturalistic grazing, Rewilding, Science Communication|Comments Off on Rewilding: the radical new science of ecological recovery

I am pleased to announce publication of my new book on rewilding science co-authored with Cain Blythe It is the first multi-disciplinary account of the science the underpins rewilding as a conservation agenda and practice. My journey in rewilding science started back in 2005 when I took a group of students to visit rewilding areas

10 12, 2016

Ecospace, rewilding and the cow that didn’t die

By |2017-05-11T07:20:03+00:00December 10th, 2016|21st Century conservation, Blog, Ecospace, Naturalistic grazing, Rewilding|Comments Off on Ecospace, rewilding and the cow that didn’t die

On a Saturday afternoon in late November I went for a walk along Iffley meadows in Oxford. The gate to the BBOWT meadow was hung with a sign telling the story of a cow that had gotten stuck in a ditch and was pulled out with a neck rope. Those entering the field were asked

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