Nature

Nature. The actual real world. What are we doing to it, why, and can't we just leave it the fuck alone for a bit?

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Can't see the trees for the wood

3 weeks ago
Rescuing my 25-year-old Marin from a garden shed and riding Bedgebury on a wet March day reminded me why I bought the thing in the first place, and got me thinking about the organisation that built the trails. Forestry England are easy to love as a cyclist and harder to defend as an environmentalist: their legal mandate is timber but forests are more than just wood.

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So long and thanks for all the fish

4 months ago
Pausing to reflect on my time scuba diving among coral reefs and the personal sense of loss as they disappear from the world

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The moor the merrier?

1 year ago
Over 1 million acres of moorland in the uk - but is this a good thing? What is moorland and should we care?

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Bialowieza Forest

2 years ago
The first major stopping point on our Europe 2023 tour was Bialowieza forest in Poland. Situated right on the border with Belarus this protected area contains the largest number of European Bison anywhere in the wild, plus several wolf packs, elk and lynx.

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Never mind the gap

2 years ago
Two days ago someone cut down the lone Sycamore tree at Sycamore gap in Hadrian's wall. You may have heard about it, or seen the usual rational and considered opinions on social media...

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