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Costing the Earth, Insect Extinction?

What did insects ever do for us? Tom Heap asks leading entomologists how we can stop their decline.

Click here to listen to the podcast : BBC Radio 4 – Costing the Earth, Insect Extinction?

This entry was posted in News on 07/06/2019 by admin.

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    Flitwick Moor

    7:00 pm
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    Bioblitz - Howe Park Wood

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    Pineham, Opposite North Willen Lake, Dragonflies

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  • Book now for Return to Nature with Nick Baker 4 July 2019
    Nick Baker Milton Keynes Festival of Nature 2019
  • Bucks & MK Urban Bird Notes – Edition 1    17 June 2019
  • MKNHS Summer 2019 walks part 2 published
  • Moth Notes 15 June 2019
    Orange Pine Tortrix ©Gordon Redford, Newport Pagnell 10 June 2019
  • MK Festival of Nature 29 June – 7 July 2019
    Festival of Nature 2019
  • StadiumMK Peregrines update June 2019
    Peregrine Platform at Stadium MK ©Sue Hetherington 28 April 219
  • Trip Report Stonepit Field 4 June 2019
    Sawfly ©Julian Lambley, Stonepit Field 4 June 2019
  • Buckingham Swifts
  • Swift Awareness Week 22 – 30 June 2019

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    30 Days Wild

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    The Time Is Now Mass Lobby

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    31
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    2019

    Dragonfly Challenge

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    06
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    2019

    National Meadows Day

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    06
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    2019

    RSPBNBLG Walk - Otmoor

    10:00 am
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    19
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    11
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    Big Butterfly Count 2019

 

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  • Call of the curlew: what can be done to stop its decline?
  • Restoring the Lungs of the Forest
  • Butterfly Id – High Brown Fritillary
  • Saving Black-tailed godwits
  • Caddisflies and Molinia
  • Plant extinction ‘bad news for all species’
  • Bringing nature back from the brink 
  • How wildcats will be reared for release in England and Wales
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  • BTO – Mammal monitoring
  • How connecting landscapes can help hazel dormice
  • The Duke of Burgundy is no gentleman!
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  • Wood Wise – secrets of soils
  • Redshank – the ‘warden of the marshes’
  • Blog – Barberry Carpet moth
  • Dig It – June Tips from the Secret Gardener
  • Britons think most moths eat clothes, say Butterfly Conservation 
  • Identifying Small Breeding Grebes
  • Our best places for nature are also important carbon stores
  • Springwatch – Mammal Detective
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  • Plantlife – Road Verges Campaign
  • Identifying Goldcrest and Firecrest
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