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What is “biodiversity? – and what price BNG, aka “biodiversity net gain”?
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3 comments on What is “biodiversity? – and what price BNG, aka “biodiversity net gain”?The launch of a new series to explore the ramifications of a huge and very tricky concept that has become a buzz word and is the subject of new laws. By Colin Tudge Developers or anyone else who aspires to change Britain’s landscape significantly is required these days to demonstrate that their project will achieve…
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1. Biodiversity: a necessary concept but not sufficient
An introduction to the first of four sections of an intended series on the infinitely complex issue of biodiversity. By Colin Tudge What, first of all, do we mean by “biodiversity”? Most obviously it is taken to mean the number of species in a given habitat. But this immediately raises a whole raft of issues.…
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Appetisers
Adding an appetiser course would be a great improvement to our British “meat and two veg” meal format.
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Fellow creatures
An on-line book about the natural world and our attitude towards it, to be published blog-by-blog in irregular instalments PREFACE PROMETHEUS AND ICARUS – A TALE OF TWO GREEK HEROES Biology is my thing. I’ve been engaged with it for more than 70 years. It’s what I focused on at school and in my cold…
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Hospitality
Barbequing is the one form of entertaining that seems to be growing in popularity rather than declining. Hospitality seems to come less naturally to us than the Greeks. But can you learn to be a good host?