Trends, management, and the potential solutions to biodiversity loss
Managing ecosystems is of extreme importance for the sake of humanity's survival. It is estimated that the world's population will increase by 12 billion by the...
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Championing Conservation
Do you like wildlife? What do you do to conserve it? Maybe you’re a member of a charity, the RSPB, Buglife, or the Mammal Society for instance. Maybe you dedica...
A bird in the bush: How our migrants beat the Sahara
These days science is all over bird migration. We watch our screens avidly waiting for the next ping to appear on a Google map as a satellite-tracked individual...
Ornithologists – Exciting opportunities abroad await!
Operation Wallacea is a network of academics from European and North American universities, who design and implement biodiversity and conservation management re...
Indicator species – the tell-tales of habitats
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...
Status and Identification of hares Lepus sp. in Western Sahara and southern Morocco
Richard MOORES, Daniel BROWN, Robert MARTIN and Dr Alexander C. LEES
Introduction
The North African hare Lepus sp. fauna is currently represented by two ...
In search of Scotland’s strangest mammal
Only 30 minutes from Britain’s fourth largest city, Glasgow, lies the gateway to the Highlands; Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. As Britain’s larges...
Confessions of an Inland Birder
A new year dawns, and after glancing back on 2016, most birders will have thought about what their targets are for the coming year…increase their life list, yea...
3 Reasons to restore and visit our Caledonian Scots Pine Forest
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...