Thank you all for all your messages, stories, photos, flowers and cards. The response to John’s passing has been enormous; a testimony of how special John was to us. John’s…
Dearest family and friends of John Sawyer John passed away suddenly in the early hours of Saturday morning (7 November) at his turangawaewae (spiritual home) of Reudle on the Isle…
Rarely does a shared name suggest likeness. And yet, almost antipodal on planet Earth, there are two small islands both named Ulva, both separated from larger neighbours by a small…
The truth is New Zealanders should care more about ferns. I know they appear to want to stick one on their flag, a silver one at that? As if it is somehow…
It seems unlikely, if you could see my frame, but butterflies are quicker than I at traversing this magic moorland. I am all camera lenses, rucksacks and wellington boots –…
I wholeheartedly support the rewilding and restoration of our green and pleasant, but ecologically muted, land, and of our British ecosystems that are but a shadow of their former selves.…
The ferry is dragging out of Oban. Ben Cruachan rises out of beech forest. The Sound of Lismore is calm. The colours here are slight, even the blue sky is…
At first you cannot be quite sure what you are looking at. Standing on a rocky basalt platform, attempting to bask in the anaemic June sunshine, I am looking out…
Puffins of the Isle of May National Nature Reserve, on the edge of the Firth of Forth, Scotland. For more information about the Atlantic puffin see Wild Mull (www.wildmull.com).
If ecological success is calculated by measuring lifespan then very few species can be said to have truly ruled the world. Species domination invariably has bookends in history. Whether it…
