Maurice Avent was fortunate to purchase an SSSI valley close to Bath in 1982 for which he has kept records of butterfly populations for 30 years. He was National Chairman of Butterfly Conservation between 2007 and 2010. Insects are very much the foundation upon which our planetary diversity of creatures, including the human race, depends […]
Transition Bath offers another day of hedge-laying at Smallcombe Nuttery. We are very grateful to Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the National Trust for their support with this work. Hedge laying is a traditional country skill intended to create a strong, dense living hedge. By laying a hedge you not only create a […]
Talk by Dr Venus Bivar, Associate Professor of Environmental History at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. Dr Venus Bavar's research and teaching are located at the intersection of environmental, economic, and European history. Her scholarship excavates the histories of major contemporary global phenomena, from the international agricultural trade system and climate change, to the […]
