Wildfires are now becoming more common, obviously due to climate change and warming temperatures. But also due to the increasing amount of flammable eucalyptus trees being planted to produce ‘biodegradable’ packaging for chocolate and coffee and also to make Tencel (like a local version of bamboo for clothing). Also wildfires can be caused by modern…
animal friends
a magazine to help native wildlife
British Wildlife was launched back in 1989 and still going strong, as it has low overheads. Wonderful reading for people who are passionate about our natural world, each issue (published 8 times a year) has 84 information-packed pages. Sample articles are: The wildlife of London churchyards Identifying British ladybirds Restoring mountain woodland in The Cairngorms Conservation…
a book to teach children about rewilding
Rewilding is simply the act of leaving nature alone. This has been done on a grand scale in many areas of the world to help wildlife (especially endangered species) thrive and benefit the ecosystem. Obviously you can’t just reintroduce wild boar to the domestic towns, but we can leave nature alone in the areas where…
an inspiring true story of rewilding
Fourteen Wolves is the wonderful true story of how wolves (who disappeared from Yellowstone Park in the 1930s) were reintroduced, as the ecosystem began to collapse. Enormous herds of elk swarmed the plains, bears starved, rabbit families shrank and birds flew to new homes. Plants vanished, trees withered and rivers meandered. But in 1995, they…
how to save endangered wild wolves
Even if wolves don’t live near you, as John Muir once wrote ‘when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world’. In other words, helping wild wolves in Canada, kangaroos in Australia and elephants in Africa, can only do good. Gray Wolf is a beautifully…