Status Updates From Elegy For a River: Whiskers...

“Thanks to economic realities the four-decade long ecological nightmare unleashed by one rush of enthusiastic money-making, supported by misguided governmental policy, has yielded none of its intended benefits. Because we are determinedly not catching and selling crayfish.” I am feeling so so furious at the money making pricks who hurt the Earth

“We had invested two hundred man-hours and hundreds of pounds into a detailed set of results that demonstrated that a sunny day is brighter than a cloudy day, and both are brighter than the Zoology department.” 😂😂😅

As species get rarer and more iconic, the emotiveness of the surrounding human issues also increases. By the time you’re working on big cats, for example, conservation is hugely political and opinions plentiful and polarised. … some media outlets are willing to publish those attacks rather than to represent the complexity of the debate. Not much of any of that is helpful, either to humanity or to wildlife.

Water voles want everyone to go away and leave them alone. If it weren’t for the imperative to breed, and perhaps a vague worry about where everyone else had gone, they would probably be perfectly happy never seeing another vole their entire lives.
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