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In this issue
English Nature Laws in Crisis – The Common Octopus – Birds in Place-names – Action Needed for Protected Sites – Rewilding and Birds at Mar Lodge
Contents:
- 235 A confluence of crises in English nature laws
- 240 Natural Reflections
- 241 The fluctuating fortunes of the Common Octopus in Britain
- 249 Habitat Management News
- 251 Birds in English place-names: signposts to the old ecologies of place
- 259 Wild Story
- 260 England’s protected sites: an opportunity to drive nature’s natural recovery is being missed
- 267 The Strawberry Tree
- 268 Does rewilding help birds in the uplands? Thirty years of monitoring at Mar Lodge Estate NNR
- 278 Naturally Opiniated
- 279 Wildlife reports
- 302 Conservation news
- 308 Changing perspectives
- 310 Book review: Coastal Seas
Articles in this issue
Does rewilding help birds in the uplands? Thirty years of monitoring at Mar Lodge Estate NNR
In 2012, ecologist Adam Watson published his records of 60 years of bird monitoring in northeast Scotland (Watson 2012). Reading these accounts is a remarkable experience. Situated within the Cairngorms National Park, the National Trust for Scotland’s (NTS) Mar Lodge Estate (MLE) is the UK’s largest National Nature Reserve. Andrew Painting and Shaila Rao askSee moreEngland’s protected sites: an opportunity to drive nature’s natural recovery is being missed
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Book review: Coastal Seas
Prepare to enter a new world. Between these covers lifelong marine naturalists, Frances Dipper and Paul Naylor, take you on a journey through our coastal seas. A mere page or so in, you are rapidly transported beneath the waves. And, in as little as a few lines, you grasp a sense of what it is
Conservation news
This month’s conservation news covers Defra’s new animal welfare strategy, planning reforms and BNG exemptions, the new ‘Earth Rover’ programme and more.
Wildlife reports
Highlights from February’s wildlife reports include the launch of a project to understand the distribution of the German Hairy snail along the Thames and a storm induced mass stranding of Common Starfish in Kent.
Habitat Management News
February’s habitat management news covers management of young farm woodlands.
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