August 2024

In this issue

The Westward Advance of the Harbour Seal – Conservation of the Field Cricket – Wilding the Coastal Zone – Mitcham Common – Thirty-five Years of Moth Reports

Articles in this issue

Paul Waring

Thirty-five years of moth reports

Paul Waring

Long-term BW contributor Paul Waring reflects on losses, gains and remarkable stories from the last 35 years of change in British and Irish moths.  In 1989, Andrew Branson (founder of British Wildlife) visited the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) to sound out potential contributors for a new wildlife and conservation journal which he was planning toSee more

The wilding debate and the coastal zone: never the twain shall meet?

Graham Weaver

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The continuing fortunes of the Field Cricket in Britain

Jane Sears, Mike Edwards, Rowan Edwards and Mike Coates

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The surreptitious westward advance of the Harbour Seal

Stephen Westcott

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Features
in this issue

Book review: Hedges

Robert Wolton is one of those rare people who combines a scientific understanding of ecology with highly pertinent practical experience plus an ability to communicate in an engaging way. This book reflects the man and his personal experience as a farmer and expert who has led government delivery of farm-advice programmes across England and has

Book review: The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space in Between

The Accidental Garden opens with a quote from the poet R. S. Thomas, who once described the garden as ‘a gesture against the wild’. This is, Mabey suggests, a summary of the whole human project on planet Earth. ‘We still struggle to find a gesture in our relations with the natural world which is more

Stephan Ridgway (CC BY 2.0)

Conservation news

Conservation news offers a post-election roundup on implications for the environment and the major challenges facing the new government, along with news on the return of harmful blue-green algae in Lough Neagh, the results of the consultation on Wales’s proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme, and much more. Conservation news supplement

Wildlife reports

The wildlife reports cover the discovery of a jumping spider new-to-science in Cornwall, the spread of some non-native marine molluscs, the encouraging success of Green-winged Orchids in south-east Wales, and much more.

Habitat management news

August’s habitat management news looks at ways of managing the disconnect between flower availability and peak bee abundance in agricultural landscapes, and highlights a recent guide from Freshwater Habitats Trust and University College London on creating, managing and restoring ponds.

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