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Writer, sailor and freebooting
conservationist from Scotland LINKS TO WEBSITES: ‘Author site’; ‘Nature site’
about: ‘The Storm Leopard’
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- Wild Revival?
- Call for a Parks Red List
- Radical solution could avoid depletion of natural resources
- My Friend Bini
- Game Over in Africa? II. Last Best Chance for Wildlife
- Game Over in Africa? I. Empty Forests, Silent Plains
- The Butterfly That Beat Its Wings
- Islands in the Gulf – Fragmented World of Nature Conservation
- Advice for a Young Conservationist
- Ponticum and Me: An Alien-Plant Love Story
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- Payment for Eden?
- Badger Culling and the ‘Verminization’ of British Wildlife
- Laws of the Wapichan
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- Serengeti shall not die—but how?
- My favourite quotations from The Origin of Species
- On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition (Sterling, 2008)
- Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1st ed., 1859)
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- “In John we trust”
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Category Archives: Nature
Wild Revival?
The ‘wild’ delights and terrifies us, conjuring in one organic breath raw nature in her elemental glory and savage beasts lurking in the wastes awaiting their chance to pounce. But what really is the wild? Is it something we should … Continue reading
Posted in A Wild Call, Boats, Freedom, Molio, Nature
2 Comments
Call for a Parks Red List
Cause for Concern Whilst assessing the state of protected areas in Ethiopia I became concerned at the number of parks occupied by cattle for large parts of the year, or all year round in some cases. Farming had encroached into … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Nature, Protected Areas
Tagged BIOPAMA, IUCN Green List, IUCN Red List, METT, PADDD, PAME, RAPPAM
8 Comments
Radical solution could avoid depletion of natural resources
A radical new approach to managing ecosystems reveals how society’s use of forests, fisheries and other natural resources could be inspired by nature, which creates sustainable ecosystems amid intense species competition for limited resources. It had its origins in my … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Nature, Threats
Tagged conservation, natural resources, sustainable use, tragedy of the commons
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My Friend Bini
Bini cooked the greatest bush breakfast. We would be camping in some remote Ethiopian park and I would wake to the smell of coffee being brewed. It soon got me out of my sleeping bag to greet the morning. As … Continue reading
Game Over in Africa? II. Last Best Chance for Wildlife
With pressure building for African land, coupled with parks that lack legitimacy in the eyes of local people, declining government investment in their management, booming prices for wildlife products, poaching and the never-ending tales of bribery and corruption (sister blog), … Continue reading
Game Over in Africa? I. Empty Forests, Silent Plains
Studying UN projections on population trends a few weeks ago, my world view on the future of African wildlife took a severe dent from which, I fear, it may never recover. What the dry numbers indicated were that the number … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Nature, Protected Areas, Threats
Tagged Africa, natural resources
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The Butterfly That Beat Its Wings
As we gaze into the future, the further forward we look, the more unpredictable it becomes. Despite our skills in satellite imagery, science-networking and super-computer processing which give us unsurpassed details about our planet and its resources and notwithstanding our … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, History, Nature, Threats, Uncategorized
Tagged conservation, environmental problems, nature, nature conservation, wildlife conservation
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