One thing I have noticed over the last few weeks in the UK is how many butterflies are around. A walk around farmland and nature reserves seems to reveal a plentiful supply of butterflies of a variety of species. A few years ago the EU changed agricultural subsidies so that they would only paid if [...]
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Thailand Birding: Wetland & Open-country species near Bangkok
May 26th, 2008 
nick Bangkok is surrounded by wetlands, indeed it is built upon them, and unfortunately the city is rapidly spreading out further, obliterating many wetland areas that were inhabited by wetland birds. The result is that many species that were formerly abundant are becoming ever scarcer. However, the fishponds close to Muang Boran in Samut Prakarn province [...]
Trade in Endangered Species at Chatuchak Market
March 25th, 2008 nick On Sunday 16th March 2008, my wife and I went to Chatuchak Market in Bangkok to do some shopping. I took the opportunity to take a look at the animal section and was appalled to see large numbers of birds, mammals and reptiles being sold illegally. Squirrels were particularly numerous as were reptiles, but it [...]
Thailand Birding: Muang Boran Fishponds
March 10th, 2008 nick On Saturday morning (08/03/08) I finally got myself back to Muang Boran Fishponds in Samut Prakarn province – a place which used to be one of “local patches” in Thailand. Despite the slightly convoluted way in, I remembered how to get there and was on site by about 6.45am. It seemed little had changed here [...]
Vultures in Trouble in Africa?
November 2nd, 2007 nick Some worrying news has appeared on the Birdlife International website about the drug diclofenac being found for sale at a vets in Tanzania. This drug has been the driving force behind the population collapse of vulture species that were formerly common in Asia – resulting in them being critically endangered now. The drug has now [...]
Earth in the Balance
October 23rd, 2007 nick A few days ago I wrote a short book review on Al Gore’s book “Earth in the Balance” on bookreviewblog. For anyone who is interested in environmental ideas this is an excellent source of information. Gore does a great job of taking a holistic view of environmental problems and this book was published in 1992, [...]
Yamoogle search engine for carbon offsetting
October 15th, 2007 nick For those who are into carbon offsetting there is a new search engine on the web which donates all its profits to recognised carbon offsetting projects. Yamoogle.com Carbon offsetting is a dubious science and most certainly should not be a substitute to becoming less wasteful and less polluting at a personal level. However, if it [...]
