Over the previous few months I’ve given talks to some great native conservation teams, together with the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Belief, BADCOG, Pals of Hemblington Church. Bure Valley Conservation Group and so forth. What I invariably discover on these events is that the common age of the viewers (and of the work events on their web sites) tends to be 60+
These teams – and lots of, many others across the nation – do superb work sustaining native habitats and recording their wildlife: their efforts are hardly ever publicised, by no means glamorous and infrequently arduous and soiled. These beautiful persons are not counting raptors crossing the Straits of Gibraltar, in search of uncommon waders in Indo-china, visiting Albatross colonies within the Pacific nor any of the opposite vaunted ‘tasks’ undertaken by high-profile post-grad ‘conservation employees’. I do marvel simply how a lot enthusiasm for the setting ‘Technology Z’ really has…
