FFON. The Frightened Face of Nature.

  • Challenges facing the planet

    Challenges facing the planet

    This was one of my (Simon) favourite talks from the Maxwell Knight Symposium and we’re very grateful to Paul Pearce-Kelly for allowing us to share his slides on the FFON website. The Frightened Face of Nature Paul Pearce-Kelly, ZSL Abstract If Maxwell Knight were writing his prescient Frightened Face of Nature today he would no…

  • Global wildlife populations have halved in just 40 years” – WWF’s Living Planet Report 2014.

    Global wildlife populations have halved in just 40 years” – WWF’s Living Planet Report 2014.

    “Wildlife’s continued decline highlights the urgent need for sustainable solutions to humanity’s increasing demand on our natural resources,” reports WWF and ZSL in the Living Planet Report. Professor Ken Norris, Director of Science at the Zoological Society of London said: “The scale of biodiversity loss and damage to the very ecosystems that are essential to…

  • M’s (Maxwell Knight) Spectre: The Frightened Face of Nature

    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…