As well as writing ideas and making films we'll bring you news on the environment, updates of what we are up to and what we are reading and watching. There is so much going on out there and if you have a story you think we should know about please get in touch.
Is Romeo finally set to meet his Juliet? While I doubt Shakespeare was thinking of Sehuencas water frogs when he penned his epic, heres hoping this uplifting story has a happier ending.
Also three new species of Salamanders have been found deep under ground in Texas and some positive news on plastic waste.
In amongst the doom and gloom nature still has the potential to surprise us, as scientists discover one of the largest living things on Earth is even bigger and older than previously thought, and looking for a News Year's resolution, a compelling argument as to why eating less meat should be top of your list.
Some very convincing arguments that invasive species are more often then not beneficial, or at least benign, to local ecosystems. There’s often an element of nationalistic fervour when it comes to these ‘foreign’ interlopers and vast sums of money are spent by governments to defeat them.
Scoresby Sund in Greenland is the longest Fjord in the world. 350km to be precise. During the recent Ice Age it would have been a large glacier slowly carving a valley through the landscape. Now the main body of ice has retreated and melted to be replaced by the rising sea, also known as a Fjord :)
The management of grouse moors features in the news this week. At the heart of the ‘sport’ of driven grouse shooting is the ability to shoot as many red grouse as one can. The land is managed to maintain the highest possible population of grouse. Threats to the bird (stoats, weasels, hares and birds of prey, to name but a few) are not tolerated.
So animals are killed to ensure that lots of other animals can be killed for a few individual’s pleasure. And this is the UK in the 21st Century.
Sometimes we’re so keen to save iconic species around the world that we forget about our own local wildlife. It is a sad fact that we live in one of the most denatured landscapes in the world. A provocative and original book that doesn't always make for easy reading. For a nation of nature lovers, we must do a lot better...
What the hell are we doing to our seas? This brilliant book outlines the multiple man-made issues faced by the oceans and their wildlife, as well as offering fascinating details about life in the sea. Though the warnings are stark, the book is not without hope - but we must act quickly…
Our WWF - Just Like Us Commercial just picked up 2 awards at the Drum Design Awards. One of them was the Grand Prix! Thank you to The Drum Design Awards!!
A brilliant argument against driven grouse shooting, a ’sport’ which dominates large areas of our uplands for the enjoyment of a tiny minority. It outlines the persecution of wildlife, including endangered species such as the Hen Harrier, as well as the environmental damage caused by the management of these moors. A sobering but excellent read.
Our film for I Am Water has picked up two awards at FRESH 18.. A Bronze for Cinematography and a Carbon Award for Best Commercial and Branded Content. Thank you!
We love this book. We love George Monbiot. A fascinating, eye-opening look at nature in the United Kingdom and how wilding could benefit us all. Though our wildlife faces a stark future, this elegantly written book is a persuasive argument that there is still hope if we are willing to change. Bring on the wilding!
Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests
"Save the rainforest” is an environmental slogan as old as time — but Tasso Azevedo catches us up on how the fight is actually going these days. Spurred by the jaw-dropping losses of the 1990s, new laws (and transparent data) are helping slow the rate of deforestation in Brazil. Is it enough? Not yet. He has five ideas about what we should do next. And he asks if the lessons learned in Brazil be applied to an even bigger problem: global climate change.
