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		<title>Chrysis inaequidens, the jewelled cuckoo wasp</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/06/chrysis-inaequidens-the-jewelled-cuckoo-wasp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/06/chrysis-inaequidens-the-jewelled-cuckoo-wasp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ranger's surfing highlights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hymeroptera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at this gorgeous North American solitary wasp (click the image for a bigger version if you like). Now wonder about its name &#8211; why is it named after a bird? After all, cuckoos are hardly known for their brightly coloured plumage. The answer lies in its lifestyle. Cuckoo wasps&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/06/chrysis-inaequidens-the-jewelled-cuckoo-wasp/" title="Read more Chrysis inaequidens, the jewelled cuckoo wasp">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental infrastructure: what it could really cost</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/05/environmental-infrastructure-what-it-could-really-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 11:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ranger Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flooding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drains, water, sewage works, landfill sites&#8230; usually best left to somebody else to sort out. Well, maybe once this was true. In south-east England nothing could be further from the truth today. It&#8217;s not always perceived as an obvious connection with countryside management but maybe it should be. The Ranger&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/05/environmental-infrastructure-what-it-could-really-cost/" title="Read more Environmental infrastructure: what it could really cost">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blogger who falsely accused council officers of corruption ordered to pay £25K damages.</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/03/blogger-who-falsely-accused-council-officers-of-corruption-ordered-to-pay-25k-damages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/03/blogger-who-falsely-accused-council-officers-of-corruption-ordered-to-pay-25k-damages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ranger Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carmarthenshire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[libel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a council officer and as a writer on the internet, I&#8217;ve been following the story of Jacqui Thompson and Carmarthenshire council for a while now. Jacqui Thompson is vice-chair of the Community Council in the Carmarthenshire village of Llanwrda. She also maintains a blog critical of Carmarthenshire council and its officers. She&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/03/blogger-who-falsely-accused-council-officers-of-corruption-ordered-to-pay-25k-damages/" title="Read more Blogger who falsely accused council officers of corruption ordered to pay £25K damages.">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The rural economy? FRIG that!</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/03/the-rural-economy-frig-that/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/03/the-rural-economy-frig-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wildlife & countryside news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seeda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Ranger is an avid reader of the Country Land and Business Association magazine. It&#8217;s well worth a read for the good advice and news you find in it, and it&#8217;s probably not revealing too much to say that several of the pages on Naturenet&#8217;s law section were inspired &#8211;&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/03/the-rural-economy-frig-that/" title="Read more The rural economy? FRIG that!">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: A Year in the Woods, Colin Elford</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/02/book-review-a-year-in-the-woods-colin-elford/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/02/book-review-a-year-in-the-woods-colin-elford/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend bought me &#8216;A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger&#8216;, by Colin Elford. I picked up the book with a certain apprehension &#8211; the second-hand bookshops&#8217; natural history shelves are stuffed with glossy tomes under that kind of title; giving accounts either uncomfortably twee or&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2013/02/book-review-a-year-in-the-woods-colin-elford/" title="Read more Book review: A Year in the Woods, Colin Elford">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s loneliest tree&#8230; and its ironic fate</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/12/the-worlds-loneliest-tree-and-its-ironic-fate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/12/the-worlds-loneliest-tree-and-its-ironic-fate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Roads and transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niger]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent post on Damn Interesting drew the Ranger&#8217;s attention to a tree he&#8217;d vaguely heard of, but of which he never really knew the story. The Tree of Ténéré in 1961 The Tree of Ténéré (or l&#8217;Arbre du Ténéré) was an acacia in the Ténéré desert, an area of&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/12/the-worlds-loneliest-tree-and-its-ironic-fate/" title="Read more The world&#8217;s loneliest tree&#8230; and its ironic fate">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Seb Przd&#8217;s intriguing photographs</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/12/seb-przds-intriguing-photographs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/12/seb-przds-intriguing-photographs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ranger's surfing highlights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy these beautiful and intriguing photographs of trees, and people, enjoying the outdoors on &#8216;little planets&#8217;. &#160; Taken by Seb Przd (and kindly shared by him on Flickr).]]></description>
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		<title>Nice legs! The world&#8217;s leggiest animal is rediscovered.</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/nice-legs-the-worlds-leggiest-animal-is-rediscovered/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/nice-legs-the-worlds-leggiest-animal-is-rediscovered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ranger's surfing highlights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[massive animals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last seen in 1928, the colobognath millipede Illacme plenipes is thought to have more legs than any other animal on earth &#8211; one female was found with 750 legs, while the males are thought to have a maximum of 562. Despite its legginess the species is actually quite small, even relative to&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/nice-legs-the-worlds-leggiest-animal-is-rediscovered/" title="Read more Nice legs! The world&#8217;s leggiest animal is rediscovered.">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Urban Mammals &#8211; a concise guide</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/book-review-urban-mammals-a-concise-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/book-review-urban-mammals-a-concise-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010, the People&#8217;s Trust for Endangered Species produced Britain’s Mammals – a concise guide, which I said was &#8220;a rich delight to read&#8221;. So when I heard that another book in the same series was on its way, I was naturally interested. That book is Urban Mammals &#8211; a concise&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/book-review-urban-mammals-a-concise-guide/" title="Read more Book review: Urban Mammals &#8211; a concise guide">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A shrimp on a treadmill to the tune of Benny Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/a-shrimp-on-a-treadmill-to-the-tune-of-benny-hill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/a-shrimp-on-a-treadmill-to-the-tune-of-benny-hill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[benny hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funny]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persisting with the Ranger&#8217;s long-standing interest in bizarre invertebrates, the latest addition to his virtual menagerie is this video, enigmatically titled &#8220;A shrimp on a treadmill to the tune of Benny Hill&#8221;: This is one of the funniest things the Ranger has seen online for a long time. Which probably&#160; <a href="http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2012/11/a-shrimp-on-a-treadmill-to-the-tune-of-benny-hill/" title="Read more A shrimp on a treadmill to the tune of Benny Hill">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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