The wild spirit of the fox
The Fox is a wonderful animal and no other animal in the British Isles causes so much debate. There’s doesn’t seem to be a middle ground they are either loved and adored or...
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Why the Extinction Rebellion Appealed to me.
For years, and years I have been exposed to depressing and shocking articles, journals, lectures, films, and documentaries about the destruction of our planet. The older I got the more terrifying my future...
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#PatchChat: Forgotten Decorations
Sunday 12th March 2017 The walk down the concrete road is long and dreamlike in the grey light. A faint and illusive fog shrouds the world beyond, holding in the calls of sparrows...
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Flying Happiness – Bird Walk at Pench Tree Lodge
Emily Dickenson, a great American poet of her time once said that, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” Every...
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#PatchChat: Sites of Exclosure
23rd October 2016 ‘Leave it.’ Elsie looks up at me from beside the bin. ‘Leave it.’ She eats the chewing gum and then scuttles to my left leg as we continue to walk....
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#PatchChat: Outer Dark
‘You won’t get phone reception out here,’ he said, cradling the rifle under one arm and resting his other hand over the barrel. He wore green overalls and wellington boots, with a...
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#PatchChat: Between Stubbled Wheat Fields and the Railway
Rancid and prolapsed blackberries hang limp amongst the swathes of wilted nettles. My patch along the old railway line is certainly undergoing a significant change. It’s autumn now, I suppose, and there is...
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Fish diversity in the Amazon: Freshwater marvels
Brazil, one of the largest countries on the planet, a place we happily call home. Approximately 200 million people live in Brazil, being the most bio diverse location on the planet and having a...
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Does Brachygastra mellifica (Mexican honey wasp) have what it takes to change public opinion about wasps?
The world of social insects has a lot to offer to the world, in one instance you have Polybia paulista, a South American species of eusocial wasp which is armed with a sting...
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#PatchChat: Dew-Soaked Ramblings At The Start of Summer.
For some reason I always walk in the same direction around the old railway. From Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, I stride out down my road, past the Victorian terraces adorned with hanging baskets and window...
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