Category: The spy who love nature
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John E Cooper, Spy-runner, The spy who love nature
Interview with John Cooper (2010) reveals the source of his clinical diagnosis skills to be Major Maxwell Knight, Britain’s greatest MI5 spymaster and the original ‘Nature Detective’
“The hand lens should be a weapon of mass education…every child under 10 should have one.” Dr George McGavin, 2017 Verrall Lecture
Antarctica: “Iceberg twice size of Luxembourg breaks off Antarctic ice shelf”, reports The Guardian
“Earth undergoing sixth ‘mass extinction’ as humans spur ‘biological annihilation’ of wildlife” reports The Telegraph
Earth Day, The spy who love nature
EARTH DAY EVENT ENCOURAGES YOUNG NATURALISTS
A day with Bill Oddie
Books, The spy who love nature
Buy “M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster by Henry Hemming”
Cage & Aviary Birds Magazine, David Alderton, The spy who love nature
A lovely piece in this week’s Cage & Aviary Birds from David Alderton about passing on what we know to the next generation…
BBC Two Chris Evans Breakfast Show, The spy who love nature
Maxwell Knight’s cabinet gets a mention on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show
Bird declines, The spy who love nature
The Vanishing: Europe’s farmland birds
Bird Feeding, Bird gardening, The spy who love nature
Simon King talks about feeding the birds on BBC Radio Humberside
Maxwell Knight Memorial Fund 1968, The spy who love nature
The Maxwell Knight Memorial Fund (1968) A Letter To The Editor…
The spy who love nature, WWF, WWF's Living Planet Report
The World Is Not Enough According To WWF’s Living Planet Report 2016 (in fact, we require the ‘biocapacity equivalent of 1.6 Earths’)
Did you know Maxwell Knight?, The spy who love nature
Did you know Maxwell Knight?
Big Butterfly Count 2016, The spy who love nature
Are butterflies slipping through our fingers?
State of Nature 2016, The spy who love nature
The State of Nature 2016: One in 10 UK wildlife species faces extinction
Education: “It is the uninitiated that matter…
Closed for Business: The Department of Energy and Climate Change #DECC #ClimateChange Find out why…
So what sort of person was the real-life “M”?
How to Keep a Gorilla
Desert Island Discs: Roy Plomley’s castaway is naturalist Maxwell Knight
What’s a “cuckoo nest plot?”
Snakes, The spy who love nature
Spies and Snakes – A Charming Story
Wondering How To Learn Maxwell Knight’s (Nature) Detection Skills? Read This!
scouts, The spy who love nature
“I may not be able to draw, but I can sew!”
WORKING WITH INTELLIGENCE
Keep nature on the Agenda – post Brexit
What makes a good Field Naturalist?
Maxwell Knight's books, The spy who love nature
FFON. Written by nature detectives. 