Understanding the inner workings of ecosystems is key for ecologists and naturalists in order for them to do their jobs. Whether this is to assess the impact of...
Scotland’s Highland landscape is dominated by wide-open expanses of heather moorland, full of charismatic red deer Cervus elaphus, looking like the bleak, hosti...
How far do we go?
If you hadn’t heard already, there are a lot of things that the human race is currently doing that aren’t exactly environmentally friendly...
This time of year would not appear to be the most conducive for any botanising, given the cold weather and fact that flowers have all died back and plants are n...
The conservation sector is highly competitive when it comes to getting that job you always wanted. Whether this is due to lack of funding, jobs requiring some v...
My personal interest in the countryside came from a yearning to know more and more about what I was seeing. Stemming from birds I have branched into many differ...
Opinions regarding conservation matters are ubiquitous in the news and on social media. As a young ecologist it can be overwhelming at times, reading so many di...
Tracking and looking out for signs of wildlife is one of those things that I always do. Every time I’m out and about I’ve always got an eye out looking for sign...
Gus is from Edinburgh, although he spends a great deal of his time in Aberdeen studying Countryside and Environmental Management at the Aberdeen campus of Scotland’s Rural College. Gus loves being outdoors and learning about the outdoors! His interest in nature and the outdoors has always been there, but it really started to take hold of him when his gran introduced him to bird watching. From there this spread into trees and mammals, and now Gus's main aim is to become a well rounded ecologist, whose passion for our environment hopefully rubs off on others and helps them on their way to enjoying it as much as he does.
