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A Step Backwards for Bee Conservation: The Reauthorisation of a Harmful Pesticide.
The UK Government’s approval of the ’emergency’ use of Thiamethoxam, a harmful neonicotinoid pesticide, has raised serious concerns within the conservation community. This decision not only threatens bee populations and ecosystems but also underscores the urgent need for sustainable agricultural practices. Environmental groups are advocating for nature-positive pest management solutions to safeguard the planet’s health.
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The Hedgehog Dilemma: A Spiky Issue to Grasp. Here’s the point…
FFON Eco Scribe Can we agree a hedgehog is more than just a charming garden visitor? I hope so. It’s a barometer of our environmental health and a silent guardian of our ecosystems. In the quiet of night, hedgehogs perform vital roles, largely unseen and often unacknowledged. They control insect populations, contributing to a balanced…
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Chapter IV – goodbye to wildlife?
In this heartfelt chapter of The Frightened Face of Nature, Maxwell Knight drops his guard and invites the reader to consider the unthinkable – “the virtual disappearance of nature”. “Does such a question as that heading this chapter stem from the neurotic imaginings of a fanatic,” he asks, “or is it one that can reasonably be…
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M’s (Maxwell Knight) Spectre: The Frightened Face of Nature
During the 1960s Maxwell Knight – the real-life “M” – was working on a manuscript entitled The Frightened Face of Nature, snatching brief moments to record his thoughts on how man had treated nature so unfairly for the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The manuscript documented Knight’s greatest fears that, time was running…
