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In this issue
Wilding for Conservation – Risso’s Dolphins in Britain – Moths and Holm Oak – Importance of Woodland Grassland – Natural History of Wall Ferns
Contents:
- 547 Letting nature take back control: a paradigm shift in UK conservation?
- 555 Natural reflections
- 556 Risso’s Britain’s forgotten dolphin
- 564 Habitat management news
- 566 Holm Oaks and their moths
- 569 Wild Story
- 570 Woodland grassland- more important than you might think?
- 580 Letter from Caledonia
- 581 The surprising lives of urban wall ferns
- 588 How to be wild
- 589 Wildlife Reports
- 613 Conservation News
- 619 Changing Perspectives
- 621 Book review: Urban Plants
- 622 Book review: Just Earth
- 623 Book review: Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen
Articles in this issue
The surprising lives of urban wall ferns
Very many ferns have evolved to live on rock surfaces and are well adapted to doing so. Indeed, more than half of the British fern species are regularly found in this habitat. Some, such as the polypodies, are equally at home as epiphytes (growing on other plants), their creeping rhizomes providing both the main meansSee moreColumns in this issue
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Book review: Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen
Galloway is a relatively wild, somewhat forgotten corner of Scotland, which is part of the reason why Ian Carter chose to live there. After two years or so he has written up his findings, freshly-minted short sketches of the places he has visited, mainly on foot, from his house in a small glen. It is a pleasure to be in Carter’s
Book review: Just Earth
Just Earth comes at a particularly unjust and unearthly time. Mounting inequalities and crystallising environmental crises characterise the present day, and this forms the basis of Tony Juniper’s two-fold argument. First, the crises we face are caused and worsened by the inequalities that pervade our societies, and to adequately address these crises, those very inequalities must be overcome. Second, the crises we face disproportionately affect
Book review: Urban Plants
Urban Plants is the latest (the 15th) in the British Wildlife Collection published by Bloomsbury. By chance it follows my own book in that series, Rare Plants, and so could seem like a companion volume, though in fact it is closer to being its mirror image. My book dealt with rare, mainly native, species in mostly rural settings. Trevor’s is about mainly
Conservation News
This month's conservation news round up covers the UK ban on lead ammunition, the outcome of the UN Ocean conference a growing support for the recognition of ecocide as an international crime.
Wildlife Reports
This month’s Wildlife Reports cover a surprising first for the UK, two Iberian Orca recorded off the coast of Cornwall in July and the continued establishment of the long-legged House Centipede in Britain.
Habitat management news
August’s habitat management news covers the trial of novel predator deterrents at Rutland Water and the Roost Partnership’s efforts to create bat roosting habitat in the built environment.
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