Environmentalists have a history problem
The persistent desire to return to an earlier time is arbitrary and a practical impossibility, often sympomatic of ignorance, intolerance and an ultra-conservative political tradition.
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We need a clear strategy for delivering predator control
How many foxes do we need to kill in order to raise the productivity of the species we’re conserving?
The HuelBros and AI cultists need to get their boots dirty
In a world obsessed with optimisation, perhaps the countryside has something to teach us about the value of friction, inefficiency and taking the long way round.
Making the Scottish Highlands work – is it a pipe dream?
Scottish wildlife is disappearing and it looks like it’s NatureScot’s fault. Deer manager and crofter Niall Rowantree offers advice for a sound future for the Highlands that works both for politicians and voters
Toxic Terminology
We will only protect and restore nature across our island if farmers are seen as leaders of the solution, rather than purveyors of the decline.