🦫 Case study three features Nature and Nurture, a riparian woodland in Wiltshire, which has used the Countryside Stewardship grant to protect cricket bat willow from beaver damage whilst adapting to seasonal flooding.

Available here: www.gov.uk/government/c...

The second case study in our series is now live 🌿

Discover how @nationaltrust.org.uk has managed Holnicote Estate in West Somerset to control local deer and grey squirrel populations, and protect over 600 hectares of diverse woodland. 🌳

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Wildfires burning in Scotland just now, too: www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

If you're into podcasts, this is a fabulous chat between Blindboy and Cillian Murphy, where they discuss the novel and the film (and some of Claire Keegan's other short stories - which are also all brilliant)

open.spotify.com/episode/4zyb...

'I who have never known men' and 'Small things like these' are both devastating, haunting, beautiful. They stick with you long after reading.

Cillian Murphy plays the role of Bill Furlong beautifully in the recent film adaptation of STLT, also. Well worth a watch.

No correspondence from the AE.

I'm also curious to know how the boar was able to chase the dog down a path.

Surely, a responsible dog owner would have had their dog on a lead... which, incidentally, would have likely reduced the 'attack' in the first place.

Along with the classic, "I dread to think what would happen if a child...". 🙃

I obviously must have missed the reports of maimed children throughout Eurasia due to boar. /s

I can't get access to full text through my institution, but:
• does this compare natural cavities with nest boxes made from different materials? (Are there any that better mimic natural cavities?)
• are there differences in microclimate properties (for both) depending on height/aspect/tree species?

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