My Favourite Book This Year
One-third of the world's wild nature has been lost since I was a child and first heard the word 'conservation'. That's what keeps me awake at night.
One-third of the world's wild nature has been lost since I was a child and first heard the word 'conservation'. That's what keeps me awake at night.
For aspiring conservationists, large sums of money with which to undertake field projects and research, can seem few and far between.
Geology rocks. With that out of the way, onwards to explore the surprising variety of citizen geo-science projects that you can get involved in.
You can help monitor phytoplankton in the worlds oceans by building a simple Secchi Disk and joining the Secchi Project.
“Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms..
"The urge to explore a wilderness is inseparable from the desire to help save it." - Michael Fay
A new year and a new expedition.
and if you put them together, this is what it boils down to.
Science is taught in the classroom and practiced in the laboratory. Sometimes you get to have a go in the field. Lab's are sterile, everything goes (almost) to plan
Expeditions are about developing an understanding of the environment around you, and frequently - although it might not have been an intended outcome - an understanding of yourself..
I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.
If I were to say the word ‘rainforest’ what normally springs to mind is an endless expanse of untamed wilderness..