The government’s badger cull is being expanded to 11 new areas of England including parts of…
Day: September 7, 2020
An invisible enemy: the battle to save black-footed ferrets from the plague
Every year, from August to November, Travis Livieri becomes nocturnal. The field biologist goes out in…
Aerobatic display over the lake: Country diary, 8 September 1945
Penrith, September 3 There are few entertainments in country life to surpass sitting under the wooded…
Country diary: there’s a telltale musky smell beneath the plum tree
The last of the Victoria plums are rotting on the ground. I step around them, avoiding…