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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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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Sustainable Fashion With New York fashion week starting this week and London Fashion week coming up, sustainability in the fashion industry is a hot topic. There is also much, deserved, condemnation of fast fashion and the throw away culture that seems prevalent at the moment. We don’t really consider ourselves as a fashion brand. Our
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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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Tiny Actions. A Blog Post By Ben Hughes Introduction Hello, I’m Ben, you may know me from one of our Instagram pictures, (I’m the one with the big dark curly hair…) I’ve been wanting to write a blog for a while now. Many have been started but they are either incomplete or I’m not happy
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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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Finding a porpoise in life We’re very excited to have a guest blog written by Holly Dunn, Project Officer, at Sea Trust in Pembrokeshire. Holly is running an amazing photo ID project for harbour porpoises and she’s telling us all about it. Sea Trust Sea Trust is a non-profit community interest company established in 2003, working to
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Inspiring New Naturalists Can we inspire a new generation of naturalists, conservationists, environmentalists with art? Money making has never really been my thing. I quickly identified as a child that I wanted to work with nature and preferably in conservation; spreading the message about what I care about. FAQs popped up after the “What do
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Myxas moments… We’ve had some incredibly rewarding times surveying the glutinous snail at its only known site in the UK. Anyone reading this might wonder how that could possibly be! How can you have a great day looking for snails? Well… this particular snail is considered to be Europe’s rarest freshwater mollusc. We are working
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Lifeforms Art We’ve just released a new curled octopus T-shirt. The curled octopus organic cotton t-shirts have become our best sellers by far and we love all the positive feedback we get about them. We’re beyond excited to know that our octopus t-shirts are being worn around the world. In Australia, America, Spain, UK, Germany,
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