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Celebrating Wildlife
Field of dandelions Last Friday, May 15th, was ‘Endangered Species Day‘ in America. This event is aimed at encouraging people to learn about endangered species and what they can do to help them....
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Zemanta, and the Marine Conservation Society of the UK
Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr Zemanta recently won second prize in the Change the Web Challenge for web-innovation, and they are giving away the prize money to whichever charities most people vote...
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World Oceans Day, June 8th
The Aegean Next Monday, June 8th, is World Oceans Day. At the risk of turning this blog into a diary of global eco-events, I’d like to draw your attention to it. The idea to have a world-day for the...
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Doing Nothing to Help Nature
path cleared of grass orange butterfly The country lanes in the Pays de Gex need to be cleared of grass and wild plants from time to time, or they would rapidly become overgrown. I guess it’s...
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A Bug hotel
lacewingWinter is approaching, and change is in the air. We’re wrapping up warmer these days, and we’re not the only ones. Insects, such as this lacewing, are looking for a safe place to spend the...
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I know of a farm where they don’t feed the animals. They even allow predators to roam freely, taking up to one fifth of their stock. And they’re proud of it. That sounds pretty awful, but it’s not,...
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Rescuing birds
great tit recovering on my hand A few days ago, a great tit collided with our living room window. It’s always heart-wrenching to hear the thud of a bird against the window, fortunately it doesn’t...
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Sigourney Weaver, Ocean Acidification, Avatar, and the Belo Monte dam
Sigourney Weaver is one of my favourite actresses. I first saw her as Ellen Ripley in Alien, when I was at college, and have enjoyed most of the films I’ve seen her in since. I don’t know if it was...
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