• Economics and joy
    Happy International Biodiversity Day! Last night, I spoke at the launch of Professor Dieter Helm’s new book, Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet . It came a day after the launch (which I sadly missed...
  • Photo of the week: the joy of jays
    Photo courtesy of Nature's Home reader Charles Kinsey It’s always a delight to see a photo of jays because they are usually very shy, especially, it seems, when there’s a camera around! This photograph...
  • Derby’s Pride and Joy
    Derby County are having a good run in the Championship at the moment, pride is booming at Pride Park (overlooking the Chelsea result at the weekend in the FA cup of course). But its not activity on...
  • The joy of Cornish Choughs
    I’ve seen them in winter on the remote sand dunes of Islay. I’ve seen them picking at scraps ‘round picnic tables on Anglesey. I’ve seen them drifting lazily across the Grands Causses in southern France...
  • Shiants episode two: bird metropolis alive again!
    Welcome to the second instalment of our work on the Shiant Isles Recovery Project from Davide Scridel - the project is an initiative to remove non-native black rats from the isles in order to provide...