
Blog: Mike Pratt
Buff tailed bumblebee. Image by: Chris Gomersall/2020VISION.
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Time to turn promises into action!
As conservationists, when it comes to nature and climate, we have high hopes and expectations of our new Labour government.

My Wild Life
Another year, another day, another June 30 Days Wild!
But, why not make it every day of our lives? Can we not put nature more at the centre of what we do and how we live every day and…

On an 'en-dolphin' rush
It's so exciting, I’m on an ‘en-dolphin’ rush! I’d just finished a video about National Marine week standing on the foreshore as the tide receded. As I glanced round, there they were, two…

30 Days Wild - Living the detail
I'm lucky enough to have had my garden as my saviour during the last year. It has been my retreat and my solace, a place to cope and to create and to re-inspire me. Fortunately, I moved to a…

My Nature
As we aim to set up a youth board this year, to advise and get involved in our conservation and engagement delivery and perhaps elect a young person to Council, I am reminded that we never stop…

Look out and up
In these times of relative confinement, we are not all lucky enough to have a garden, outdoor space or green area nearby where they can take regular sojourns into relative wildness and nature-…

Garden Nature Blog - Virtual vs Real Living
Whilst working at home, in between video conferencing, Zoom, Skype and Teams meetings across the virtual airwaves, I immerse myself in my little wild acre of garden. I describe it as ‘my wild…

What Climate Crisis? Are you listening?
Greta Thunberg’s repeated question: ”Are you listening?” meaning, are you really taking notice enough to act on behalf of this failing world now we have a climate and an extinction emergency on…

30 Days Wild - Noticing nature’s continuous flow… and keeping it to yourself!
There are moments of natural magic that happen every day just in front of us, around the corner, across the world.

A New Dawn-Chorus?
When you think of a protest march starting in Hyde Park and ending at Downing Street, you don’t immediately think of ‘bird song’ but that will be one of my abiding memories of the People’s Walk…