Author name: Ian Hughes

Ian Sketching Octopus

For the Love of Octopus

Octopus I have always considered octopuses to be a bit of a rarity on the seashore and hoped but never expected, to find one. About 4 years ago after a storm I found my first British Octopus dead on our local beach and then, about a year later, another one still just alive.   The following […]

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Gardens, Meadows and Bees

Bees and meadows First the problem I like upbeat stories and solutions more than problems, so I hope you will bear with me through the small downs of this opinion to an up that might help you help save the world’s wildlife. We recently met family in St Davids for a socially distanced walk. The

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bumblebee

Bumbling on Towards Saving a Beetle

Bumbling on towards saving the Scarlet Malachite Beetle  Or… How can a T-shirt with a bee picture on it help save a rare beetle?  Our Bumblebee T-shirt depicts possibly our most iconic pollinator and one of the World’s best loved insects. As such it is an ambassador for many lesser known and often un-loved pollinators. Our

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World Environment Day

World Environment Day Today 5th June 2020 is World Environment Day. The world seems quite an unsettled place at the moment. Environmental issues seem to have taken a back seat. As a family, we made the decision many years ago to avoid flying. Taking a plane to a destination just to fulfil a desire to

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World Bee Day

World Bee Day Today, 20th May 2020, is world Bee Day, so it feels like a good day to talk about bees and other pollinators. Flowers and Fruit Most of us like flowers in some way or other and most of us like fruit in some form or other too. Most of the fruits and

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garden safari

A Garden Safari

Garden Safari We know at the moment things are difficult for so many people. We’re in a situation none of us has ever experienced before, and let’s face it, it all feels weird! Because of the lockdown we’re missing the beach, but that’s seems like such a minuscule sacrifice compared to what so many others

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glutinous snail with eggs

The Glutinous Snail Updates

Glutinous Snail Updates How it all began Like school boys with marbles my old friend Pat Wisniewski and I would discuss, with excitement the possibility of establishing a conservation breeding project for the extremely rare glutinous snail; Europe’s rarest freshwater snail. Considered extinct in Germany, Austria and Poland as well as in England; restricted, in

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Don't let the seahorse go the way of the dodo

Don’t let the Seahorse go the way of the Dodo

Introduction To Neil Garrick Maidment It is an honour to introduce our latest guest blogger, Neil Garrick-Maidment – Executive Director of the Seahorse Trust. I have worked occasionally with Neil since the mid-2000s and knew of him long before then as a Dr. Dolittle of seahorses, although it was success with other species that led

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Encounters with Owls

Encounters with Owls January for me is quite exciting for old favourites. The cold frosty air really gets the tawny owls hooting at night and because the nights are long they can be heard by children before bedtime or not so early in the morning. The frost especially seems to get them going and cold

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Children are Our Future

We believe that children are our future Let’s start with a quote from that 70’s George Benson classic – The Greatest Love of All (written by Michael Masser and Linda Creed in 1977, revived by Whitney Houston in 1985 for all you music buffs!)   I believe that children are our future Teach them well

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