Rachel Simmonite

Have an eco holiday this summer

Earlier this month, the Guardian announced their first ever Green Travel List 2010, highlighting that ecotourism isn’t just for gap year travellers wanting to make a difference to the world.
Birmingham residents can follow their suggestions of travelling abroad or staying closer to home in places like Devon and Norfolk.
John Vidal, the Guardian’s environment editor says [...]

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Save our wildlife, eat a grey squirrel

People who eat game have probably eaten the likes of rabbit, pheasant, partridge and many other wild animals.
But what about the grey squirrel? These animals which came to our shores from the United States have been gradually taking over our trees from our native red squirrels to the extent that the red [...]

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Save the albatross campaign launched

The blog, Under Clear Skies has found out via the Independent Newspaper that there is a campaign to save the Albatross.
As someone who only knows of the Albatross previously as a golf score I had no idea that they were under threat.
Thankfully Kunal Dutta’s article on them has highlighted this to me, and looking at [...]

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