Guest Blog

In praise of the 10th anniversary meeting

John Aitchison, renowned wildlife cameraman, examines the term ‘Precautionary Principle’ as applied to the way we use the natural world.

“A glorious, moving and beautiful thing” is how Helen Macdonald describes New Networks for Nature. She spoke at the maiden event in 2009, a year before my own first experience of this consistently inspiring, uplifting, occasionally challenging but always entertaining autumnal gathering. Writing in A Nightingale Sang, the New Networks for Nature magazine for 2018

Over the past 50 years in Britain, we’ve lost well over half of our biodiversity.  But that statement – whilst true – fails to capture the full reality of the carnage that’s been wrought.  To put it more clearly, through the intensification of agriculture in particular, we have wilfully destroyed well over half of the

New Networks for Nature has always been politically independent, but our programmes have had an increasingly sharp political edge to them as the threats to the natural world have become ever clearer and this is explicitly highlighted in some of the sessions scheduled for 2018.   On Friday 16 November, for example, the day begins and

Tim Birkhead writes: Adam Nicolson has just been awarded the Wainwright Prize — a fabulous accolade, for a fabulous book. It was his potent mix of passion plus the results of scientific research made us decide to invite Adam to our forthcoming New Networks for Nature meeting. He and I will be in conversation about

This was a stunning year with a very fertile theme. It was exhilarating to see many new younger participants, and everyone talking to each other in a room movingly framed by…

I was surprised that, apart from Richard Kerridge who is a member of the Steering Group, I seemed to be the only…