Meeting our visiting Exmoor Ponies at Cuckoo Tors ecology research site near Buxton! We are managing this land to benefit nature and natural processes and the ponies are all part of the plan – provided through the Wild Peak Grazing Network with Derbyshire Wildlife Trust . Who would have thought …
I’m back from the IUCN UK Peatland Programme in Derry with Moors for the Future Partnership, connecting with people and organisations involved in caring for peatlands and restoring these special places. Peatlands need restoring because they have been damaged through land management choices (e.g. draining), air pollution (e.g. industrial revolution …
Land use change in the rangelands of Botswana is affecting soil properties. Pastoralism is the only viable livelihood for many rural poor in Botswana, and privatization of communal land is reducing the area of grazing available to those without land tenure. This has elevated stocking densities in communal areas, increasing …
The attachment of microbial cells to solid substrata is a primary ecological strategy for the survival of species and the development of specific activity and function within communities. An hypothesis arising from a biological sciences perspective may be stated as follows: The attachment of microbes to interfaces is controlled by …