Other Links we like
Environmental Resources
The Whitley Fund for Nature: £500,000
annual grant fund for international conservation projects.
Landscape
Character Assessment: from Natural
England
Natural
England's Wildlife Friendly Gardening Booklet: downloadable in PDF form.
This free booklet is absolutely brilliant, but beware, it takes a while to download!
You can also order a paper copy from NE.
BBC SW Wales Nature:
very good stuff.
Green Burial Grounds:
want to be buried under a tree? Dig this site.
WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise): site
about business opportunities for women in the rural economy.
National Trails: superb representations
of real trail leaflets but with all the advantages of a web page. Not sure you
would want to take a PC with you, though. Ranger's
Award winner.
Nature in Cambridgeshire:
an annual publication about nature in Cambridgeshire.
ScienceNet: it's a kind of grown-up
scientists' version of Ask
The Ranger
.
Well worth trying out, and fascinating to browse.
Wildlife Forever: a site documenting
a wildlife gardening project. Lots of great ideas for wildlife gardeners, but
alas the poems are no longer online!
Cotswold Outdoor Ltd: outdoor
clothing firm who have, wisely, made a site with wider interest as well as adverts
for clothes.
The British Entomological and Natural History
Society
GeoResources: a splendid geography-oriented
site with some very good case studies, see especially Virtual Fieldwork.
Where can I buy a bird box or bat box online? Right
here: buy bird stuff online from the RSPB.
Hong Kong Moths: you want to
know about Hong Kong Moths. Yes, you do. Its all here.
Lyme Disease: not much fun,
but worth knowing if you ever do any practical conservation. And if you like
that, and who wouldn't, why not try The
Weil's Disease Information Center too.
The New Forest Badger Watch:
not a posh timepiece but a good website.
Habitat: kind enough to acknowledge
us generously. How could we not reciprocate? It is a really good, up-to-date
and comprehensive UK nature conservation site with an emphasis on British wildflowers.
You should see it, really. If you find Naturenet useful you will certainly want
to look at Habitat.
Ordnance
Survey gazetteer of place names: a frighteningly useful resource. Finds
almost anywhere in the UK.
Wessex Coppice Group: of interest outside
Wessex, too.
Wildlife Trust fact
sheets: about various stuff, very good info.
Woodland Improvement and Conservation
NFU Countryside: 'actively
supporting the countryside community'.
Irish Peatland Conservation Council: all about
peat and its conservation. In Ireland.
Entrust: Landfill Tax: you will be
interested in this if you are trying to raise money for an environmental project.
And who isn't?
British Wild Boar: the first
UK website devoted solely to the interests of free-living wild boar in Britain.
And what a great logo!
The Wolf Trust: an organisation whose
goal is to facilitate the reintroduction and recovery of wolves (Canis lupus)
to the Scottish Highlands in Britain. There are none there at present, if you
were in any doubt.
EPIC Exmoor: ponies in conservation.
Interested in ecology and conservation on golf courses? These
folk are.
