In the news

Jack Dicks says “http://theblackfish.org/uk/ A charity i do lots of work with to try to put an end to illegal fishing… they are always looking for new volunteers to help at events or they are looking especially for “Citizen inspectors” to go to Europe and spy on illegal catches, gather evidence and help file law complaints against […]

From star contributor, Owen Middleton (thank you Owen!) “If you want some fun animal facts, I watched Chris Packham’s Nature’s Wierdest Events at the weekend and everything featured on that was incredibly fascinating, including a strange – but amusing – coevolution between bat and plant, a cartwheeling spider and a uniquely adapted moth coccoon in the […]

SEEN contributor of the week – Carla Broom! Carla is so keen that she sent this link at the start of August. Unfortunately the programme is on longer iPlayer but the website has some information and it may be repeated. Carla said “Brian Cox has done some really interesting programs on BBC, one is about […]

Georgia Harper sent in this link to an article in PLOS One looking at the impact of a large-scale nature engagement campaign http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0149777 (thank you Georgia!)   Imogen Gast says “In the same vein as the chewbacca weevil, I found a nice little news report about a newly discovered wasp named after Brad Pitt. http://www.sci-news.com/biology/parasitic-wasp-species-brad-pitt-03842.html” […]

It’s Hedgehog awareness week http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk   

There are 2 SEEN keen beans in this edition! Firstly from Carla Broom (thank you!): “There’s an amazing documentary series on BBC2, ‘Steve Backshall’s Extreme Mountain Challenge’ where he visits places that humans have never been and has a look at lots of incredible species and nature http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b074c5jk/steve-backshalls-extreme-mountain-challenge-episode-2 Also an albino gray whale has been […]

There are 3 upcoming summer schools that you can apply for:   British Ecological Society – The second BES Summer School is taking place on 18-22 July 2016 at Malham tarn FSC.  We’ve confirmed sessions on cave ecology, upland ecology, freshwater ecology, microbial and molecular ecology, plant taxonomy, birds, bats, moths, entomology, conservation and consultancy.  […]

Georgia Harper says “I found this, it’s pretty cool –  http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/520-million-year-old-fossilised-nervous-system-is-most-detailed-example-yet-found” Thank you Georgia!   Sonny Folliot days “Here’s an article from the US regarding the protection of captive big cats; a new law just passed in where it is illegal to now privately own any big cat species. http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/news/big-cat-public-safety-act-introduced-us-senate” Thank you Sonny!   The […]

Lydia Campbell-Black says “I was watching a documentary earlier this week on David Attenborough’s curiosities, when they mentioned parthenogenesis in Komodo Dragons, which I’d never hear of before and thought could be quite interesting for SEEN. Here is an article on it:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6196225.stm” (thank you Lydia!)   Motorboat noise affects predation rates https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160205100457.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter   Moscow’s […]

From Carla Broom “genetic analysis of fossils has revealed that Homo floresiensis was in fact a separate species https://www.rt.com/news/322750-hobbit-evolved-species-teeth/” thank you Carla!   More from Carla (our SEEN keen bean this week), she says “Here’s a link for SEEN to a really interesting Attenborough documentary on the dinosaur they found; possibly bigger than a blue whale  […]