It has been a year since my Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife came out with Pelagic Publishing. I'm still so proud of it. To everyone who engaged with it, said nice things, and even bought copies - thank you so much!! 🙀📗💚

A developer wants to destroy one of the last remaining riverside meadows beside the Roding in London. 11 acres of rapidly rewilding meadow, a haven for nature in an urban area, where kingfishers nest, kestrels & bats take flight & all manner of insects, butterflies & amphibians

In its literal form CCS is a fledging technology with a history of costly failure& quantitative irrelevance.But this technology interpretation has nothing to do with the £22bill. Here CCS is a rhetorical device for maintaining business-as-usual &delaying real-world emission cuts.

“I believe that there always will be people sane enough and compassionate enough to trouble themselves on behalf of peace.” I have always loved the writings of Wendell Berry. This is an extraordinary essay Wendell Berry: Against killing children christiancentury.org/features/again…

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday 8th Oct) at our Ambleside campus for this free talk on 'Rachel Carson and British Nature Writing' by davidhiggins.bsky.social. The talk begins at 6.30pm - details and booking via link below.

Any green historians, env hum or (critical) plant scholars interested in submitting an abstract for our hybrid panel for #ESEH2025 in Uppsala🇸🇪? 🌿 @elinetabak and I are drafting a panel proposal: “Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging"🌵

I think a lot of people in this country are really pissed off after a year with few butterflies & bumblebees We've not just lost 'pollination services' - we've been robbed of beauty and joy! Maybe British Sugar & National Farmers' Union should read the room & withdraw their application?

David Higgins addresses the balance between 'dread' and 'wonder' in relation to Rachel Carson's classic 'Silent Spring' - at tonight's 'Cultural Landscapes' talk, University of Cumbria, Ambleside (here, with convener Dr Penny Bradshaw) davidhiggins.bsky.social Cumbria Uni English

Thank you so much to davidhiggins.bsky.social for getting our 2024-25 ‘Cultural Landscapes’ public lecture series off to a superb start this evening with a fascinating talk on ‘Rachel Carson and British Nature Writing’ University of Cumbria Centre for National Parks & Protected Areas Cumbria Uni Research

Enjoyed this a lot. And a good excuse to look for bitterns at Leighton Moss tomorrow. Many thanks to Dr Penny Bradshaw for the invitation and to the attentive audience.

This is quite an essay by Wendell Berry. I was talking earlier this evening about children and their capacity for wonder (via Rachel Carson). So this indictment of how supposedly civilised nations treat children hits especially hard. christiancentury.org/features/again…

Exactly why I wrote The Mourner’s Bestiary, out in one week. I needed to read these books in moments like this and couldn’t find enough. bookshop.org/p/books/the-mo…

Visited Jenny Brown’s Point at the top of Morecambe Bay yesterday. Probably would have seen more birds if the tide had been in, but found the landscape itself enthralling. Space and light.

I'm fascinated by descriptions of the abundance of now rare species. This is W. H. Hudson in 1900, writing about turtle doves in the South Downs. The species is now on the verge of extinction in the UK. For more info, including how to help, see Operation Turtle Dove

Over 500 birds - that's 12% of the current UK breeding population! Hey South Downs National Park... maybe we could work together to make this happen again?! And no reason Kent Downs National Landscape should miss out either! Chalk downland has great potential to help us get #TurtleDoveReady

Such an important graph in answering the commonly asked question "how the UK fucked up housing policy so badly" (From the CIH's UK Housing Review, via Jules Birch) insidehousing.co.uk/comment/do-sig…

Year on year, our birds of prey are being illegally killed—shot, poisoned, and trapped. Watch our video to learn why, despite legal protections, bird crime persists. 👇 Our 2023 Birdcrime Report, out today, reveals the full picture—and what must be done: rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wild…

Big flaw with Labour's 1.5m new homes – house-builders can't be trusted to add biodiversity, as this important Wild Justice study reveals: theguardian.com/environment/20… Simple solution: funding for proper inspection/enforcement/penalties.

Starmer could talk about ending right to buy & funding local authorities to build massive amounts of new council housing. He could talk about profiteering developers banking land to control supply. No. Instead he tells us newts & bats are responsible for the housing crisis