Wildlife Watching Around Ventnor, Isle of Wight

by Steve Jones

The Ventnor area of the Isle of Wight has an array of fascinating habitats and species ranging from ancient chalk grassland to Red Squirrels. And it's the perfect place to combine a family holiday with your passion for seeing wildlife.

This guide introduces the area, its key habitats and some characteristic species.

All author proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Mermaid Atlantic charity row raising money for marine wildlife conservation (see )

114 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2023

About the author

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John Stephen Jones is a Welsh geneticist and from 1995 to 1999 and 2008 to June 2010 was Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. His studies are conducted in the Galton Laboratory. He is also a television presenter and a prize-winning author on the subject of biology, especially evolution. He is one of the contemporary popular writers on evolution. In 1996 his writing won him the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize "for his numerous, wide ranging contributions to the public understanding of science in areas such as human evolution and variation, race, sex, inherited disease and genetic manipulation through his many broadcasts on radio and television, his lectures, popular science books, and his regular science column in The Daily Telegraph and contributions to other newspaper media".