At the Society for the Protection of Birds’ sixth annual general meeting in 1896, Miss Julia Andrews, a fifty-eight year old spinster and local secretary for the Society’s branch in Teddington, rose to ask a very uncomfortable question to all the good and the great – as well as the more middling sort such as […]
What with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a fight for its very existence, the recent publication of Pamela Hill’s “Environmental Protection” in the Oxford University Press What Everyone Needs to Know® series seems particularly timely indeed.
When I made my first visit to England for the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland Water, I was instantly captivated by the astonishing interest in natural history displayed by the English. When I inquired as to what was behind such a broad public interest in birds, butterflies, mammals, and a host of other naturalist topics, […]