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Wild oceans and precious corals
The deep turquoise blue in the corner of the Pacific Ocean, whipping through the extremes of waves, both choppy and calm in nature – a slight tang of tuna with a pinch of salt would scratch the taste of this huge sector of the sea. The vast oceans of the world are beautiful, massive areas in…
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Backyard Jungle
A few weeks ago I was asked by the junior branch of the Wildlife Trusts; Wildlife Watch, to write a guest post on anything I wanted to, I ran a few ideas past them and was asked to go ahead with this one. I got the idea for this post because living in a fairly urbanised…
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Protect Britain’s insurance against an utter urban jungle
It has recently come to my attention, via certain petitions and my own research, that a massive chunk of the environmental management of our country is in danger of deteriorating – the Greenbelt.The Greenbelt of the UK, or indeed of any country, is a policy for the use of controlling urban growth, which means that…
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Wildlife as a Passion: the early days
So a about a couple of weeks ago, I was asked to write a guest blog on my experiences as a young naturalist in this modern day and age, how I coped and what my opinions on this subject were – I was asked by someone you probably all know; James Common. I was extremely…
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Sadness and anger at the announcement of another badger cull.
This post is exactly as the title says it is, no play of words this time, no witty title, this post is clear; a result of me turning the subject over and over in my mind for days after the announcement was made, a result of multiple visits to my local badger sett, scope and…
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Volunteering at College Lake Wildlife Trust
So earlier this week, on Tuesday, I went to my local reserve – College lake-for some volunteering. I decided to volunteer here as I not only thought the reserve was amazingly beautiful, but I also thought that the wildlife that I had seen there, particularly in the avian sector, was absolutely brilliant. College lake nature reserve,…
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“Oh no!, the Gulls are coming!”~Julius Caesar, 50BC (not really)
In these dark, sinister days, many an innocent life has fallen prey to the evil that stalks the black, smog-ridden skies of our towns and cities- the slick, oil smeared paving stones of our well trodden paths now empty of once enthusiastic, happy human life. We, the apex predators of the natural world, now cower…
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#Inglorious12th
I’ve recently just looked through my timeline on Twitter, and I tell you what I saw there was marvellous; tweet after tweet after tweet with the hashtag ‘Inglorious12th’, it really does restore some of the lost faith I had that when you give people information about what they need to do, why it is important…
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Grow your own
Bother, it’s been ages since I wrote a new blog post; I feel that the inability sometimes to write anything (writers block, they call it), coupled with the fact that I didn’t go to any Hen Harrier Day events (gutted, by the way, spent those days mainly moth-ing and birding), seems to have stopped me…
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“What we stand for is what we stand on…together”
Sometimes, I stop whatever I’m doing and think about the state of the planet we’re living in…great swathes of lush, green rainforests disappearing, our beautiful blue oceans- absent in every other known planet but ours, contaminated by the destructive power of oil and clogged by masses of our unwanted rubbish. Entire precious species, some yet…
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Jasmine Isa Qureshi 