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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --><!-- Honeyborne -->{{Frontpage[[image:Honeyborne BlueII.jpg|leftisbn=1529395224|linktitle=httpsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1849909679?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=1849909679]]Sion Rowlands|rating===[[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow]]===3.5[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, GP and never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy arenRowlands didn't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft want to demand follow ups. And after five years in the makinghis footsteps, particularly when he considered the BBCstrain that being on-call put on his father's Blue Planet series has delivered life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a second helping. [[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne vet and Mark Brownlow|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Taylor -->[[image:Taylor Owlswas convinced this was the job for him.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178240404X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178240404X]] ===[[Owls: A Guide to Every Species by Marianne Taylor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]] Before long, [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right he was at me, locking me into their gazeLiverpool University. In contrast It hadn't - as with the hardness of the deepso many students -amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautifulbeen his dream since he was a child. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time If anything, the owl is beckoning the reader he'd wanted to turn the pages and take be a closer look inside.professional footballer.. [[Owls: A Guide to Every Species by Marianne Taylor|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Montgomery -->[[image:Montgomery Tamed.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1603587551?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINisbn=1603587551]]1839948493|title===[[Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters A World of the Animal Kind by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas]]===Dogs [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of animals: shortly after meeting, Sy's pet ferret had given Liz a nasty bite, but Liz didn't seem to mind at all. ''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a weasel. I knew we were soul mates,'' recalls Sy. ''Tamed and Untamed'' is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes Carlie Sorosiak and amazing stories about the animal world.<br>Luisa Uribe <!-- Barr -->[[image:Barr_Elephant.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184780943X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=184780943X]] ===[[10 Reasons to Love an Elephant by Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow]]=rating==5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Childrensummary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? m a sucker for dogs. Well, personallyIn nearly eight decades, I've never needed ten reasons as theymet one I didn't trust and I've always been my favourite large animal, the gentle giants loved most of Africa and India, but it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps I wish I felt the most surprising fact which same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where m going to find food and water - sit down and she knows her herddevour. She remembers about people too. [[10 Reasons Then I'm going to Love an Elephant by Catherine Barr go back and Hanako Clulow|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Grindrod -->[[image:Grindrod Outskirtsread it properly.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473625025?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473625025]] ===[[Outskirts by John Grindrod]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]  And so it was with ''OutskirtsA World of Dogs'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estates, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. John Grindrod grew up on Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the edge accidental owner of one such estate in the 1960an American Dingo - she's and '70's, as he puts it, ''I grew up on the last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, and the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with learned quite a lot of heartabout dogs since then. [[Outskirts by John Grindrod|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreview<!-- Moss -->Frontpage[[image:Moss Wild.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581639?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=0099581639]]Lev Parikian  ===[[Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss]]==|title=Light Rains Sometimes Fall  [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, which in the modern world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising the human way of life: we can co-exist with nature. [[Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Sewell -->[[image:Sewell Spot.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon4.co.uk/gp/product/1843653265?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1843653265]] ===[[The Big Bird Spot by Matt Sewell]]===5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Recently I stood on summary= If you’re a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to one write, then you know that there are unnumbered types of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few daysbooks. FinallySome you read for fun, I found onesome for distraction, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book some for childrenvicarious emotion, ''The Big Bird Spot''some to learn from in a random way, shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auksfocussed research, in amongst the guillemotsand some because they are, puffinsbroadly speaking, herring gulls and razorbillsthe kind of thing you think you might like to write. OhOr, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very carelessindeed, because you're going to have are actually trying to find them in every picturewrite. [[The Big Bird Spot by Matt Sewell|Full Review]]isbn=1783966386<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Burkey -->|isbn=1398508632[[image:Burkey_Ethics.jpg|lefttitle=The Wilderness Cure|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905570856?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINMo Wilde|rating=1905570856]]5 ===[[Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World? by Tormod V Burkey]]==|genre=Lifestyle [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside It had been on the realms of nature. He is no longer part of the ecosystem, cards for a while but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, money and all was the pollution that comes with themweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The natural worldend of November, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such things. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if it continues, will make particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the world unrecognisable. For the world best time to become fullerstart, for it to be in a world that seeks to provide for where the needs of every living thingnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, then it needs to change. [[Ethics for Brexit and a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World? by Tormod V Burkey|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ljung -->[[image:Ljung_Butterflypandemic.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847809154?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847809154]] ===[[Build Wilde had a ... Butterfly by Kiki Ljung]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]] I love butterfliesfew advantages: they're one of the delights of my garden and it's always area around her was a pleasure when there are children there and they see known habitat with a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as it rests on a flowervariety of terrains. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity She had electricity which allowed her to learn about butterflies run a fridge, freezer and also to build dehydrator. She had a 3D model of our owncar - and fuel. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age group Most importantly, but I have to confess that I she had shelter: this was not a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit too! [[Build a .plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.. Butterfly by Kiki Ljung|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Jones0711266204|title= Foxes Unearthed: A Story The Secret Life of Love Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Loathing in Modern BritainVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating= 45|genre= Animals and Wildlife Children's Non-Fiction|summary=As one I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the largest predators left in Britainground, which pop to the fox is captivating: feeders for a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash quick snatch of bright-eyed wildness some food and who settles in our townsfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or It would have been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centurieswonderful if, perceived variously as a beautiful animalchild, I'd had access to a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well book such as being the most ubiquitous ''The Secret Life of wild animals, it is also the least understoodBirds''. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes So – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783963042</amazonuk>is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsolagareth_steel|title=My First Never Work With Animals |author=Gareth Steel

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have I don't often begin my reviews with a child, warning but with ''Never Work With Animals''Whatit seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's That?life have proved popular since '' You will hear it over All Creatures Great and over and over againSmall'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. If you are lucky they are pointing at something As a TV show the author would argue that you actually know – chair''All Creatures'' lacked realism, hat, my sense of regretas do other similar programmes. Sometimes they will point at something Gareth Steel says that the book is not too familiarsuitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – itHe says that he's a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull written it to an adultinform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but to a toddler learning about the world they it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are a who's who of what's thatoccasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft1787332098|title=Amazing Animal BabiesHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Many children love ''When we do think about animals, but they love baby we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals even morestay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. A cat or a kitten? Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer If I had to most children who enjoy choose between the wide-eyed stumbling company of humans and the company of youth animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that is not dissimilar I read this book: no one was trying to their ownstop me but I was initially reluctant. HoweverI eat cheese, someone needs eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to give them either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>decision would not be comfortable.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1786495902|title= Pairs in the GardenThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals''Pairs jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the gardentime by 'keeping going' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-: the next day she went to work to cover the-flap book with a differencebudget, because not only do you get to see what's underneathnext there was the EU referendum, you the political party leadership contests and then must see if you can find a matching pairit was party conference season. But beware! You cannot just use process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs One night she had to be sedated and returned home to findbegin long-term sick leave. One poor creature is all alone with no partnerThat was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1782407480|title=Knowledge EncyclopediaBird Love: Animal!The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of book, but iton-line booksellers: ''s not always exploring the most interestingsex life of birds'' it said. A series of dry facts plastered all I very nearly passed over the page with nary an image in sightbook, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, which is rather different. This dry type of learning is never going If the book was confined to work with some the sex life of our modern youthbirds, more used you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to spending time looking for imaginary animals on -day, bring up their phones, than researching real ones families and cope in a bookthe wild. If you want to capture their attentionNot only that, you must first draw their eyes. DK have attempted missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this in one of book from the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely first page to seethe last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Derek Niemann1846045576|title= A Tale of Trees: Walks In The Battle to save Britain's Ancient WoodlandWild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=Ancient British woodland ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is something very special indeed. It captures our imaginationhow Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, connects us to nature and fuels our creativity. The British have an almost symbiotic relationship with woodland and most of us have a small local patch where we can get away from the hustle and bustle of the modern world. Itthat's hard to imagine life without our native woods, and yet in basically what it is – although right at the 40 years following end the war we lost more ancient woodland than in the previous 400. The destruction was large-scale and merciless and by 1985, we'd already lost a third of our ancient woodland. Predictions for the future were bleak: find a way author says that it is not intended to halt the decline or there will be nothing left outside nature reserves by 2020a reference book, but an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722753</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen MossBuckingham_Dawn|title=Planet Earth IIThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''Planet Earth IIglance'' at '' is The Little Book of the official companion to Dawn Chorus'' but the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series pull of the same name. Our understanding sounds of the world around us has reached a new level, courtesy of ground-breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a diverse range of environments cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and a ''sneak peek'' into previously hidden worldslistening to their song. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands, Islands Then - just because I could - I went back and Cities did it all again and showcases some of it was just as good the amazing creatures that live in each onesecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=Cameron Bloom James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Bradley Trevor GreiveWildlife|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film titlewas suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Penguin BloomTaylor_Owls|title=Owls: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a FamilyA Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|genre=Biography Animals and Wildlife|summary=Cameron I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and his wifebeautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, Samthe owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a closer look inside...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of animals: shortly after meeting, Sy's pet ferret had been leading given Liz a nasty bite, but Liz didn't seem to mind at all. ''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a very activeweasel. I knew we were soul mates, adventurous life'' recalls Sy. Even after ''Tamed and Untamed'' is the resulting collaboration between the birth of their three sons two friends as they wanted share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the animal world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Barr_Elephant|title=10 Reasons to continue their adventuresLove an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, so I've never needed ten reasons as they decided to travel 've always been my favourite large animal, the gentle giants of Africa and India, but it was good to Thailand for a family holidayfind out more about them. They were having a brilliant time until, suddenly, Sam Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was involved that they live in a dreadful, almost fatal, accidentherds headed by their ''grandmothers''. The accident left her paralysed Female elephants and their calves stay together and, because of the sudden oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and extremely severe impact she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grindrod Outskirts|title=Outskirts|author=John Grindrod|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary='' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on her life she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depressionphenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. Cameron feared for his familyJohn Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960s and 's future70s, as he puts it, and his wife's life'I grew up on the last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, until one day a small abandoned magpie chick came alongand the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, he has somehow managed to change everythingwind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Piotr SochaMoss Wild|title= The Book of BeesWild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss|rating= 4

|summary=''The Book of Bees'' may look like a typical picture book, but it Wildlife has a lot buzzing underneath been declining in Britain over the surface. It last few decades; it is adapted from the original Polish book ''Pszczoly.'' Packed to the brim with bee facts and figures and accompanied an unfortunate by the wonderful comic-style artwork product of Piotr Sochahuman population growth, which in the modern world has increased significantly. Through this book is an odd amalgamMoss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising the human way of life: part coffee table book/ we can co-exist with nature encyclopaedia/factfile/picture book. Don't be fooled by its simple cover; ''The Bee Book'' is a treasure trove of information just waiting to 'bee' harvested!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650950</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin BrownSewell Spot|title= Lesser Spotted AnimalsThe Big Bird Spot|author=Matt Sewell|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=There may be as many as 5,500 different species Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs whilst a very helpful volunteer guided my sightline to one of mammal the puffins who'd arrived on our planetthe cliffs in the last few days. Finally, I found one, but how many of those do we actually get to see after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and read about? artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, ''The Big Bird Spot'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebrasshows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but what about their lesserthis time you're going to be looking for twenty-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute three Little Auks, in amongst the spotlight? Numbatguillemots, Solenodonpuffins, Zorillaherring gulls and razorbills. Oh, Onager and Linsangyou're looking for a pair of binoculars too: Now our bird watcher is your time very careless because you're going to have to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>find them in every picture.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter MarrenBurkey_Ethics|title=Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British ButterfliesEthics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?|author=Tormod V Burkey

|summary=Peter Marren Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside the realms of nature. He is a wildlife writer based no longer part of the ecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in Wiltshiretechnologies, industry, money and all the pollution that comes with them. His fascination with butterflies began when he was a child: The natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he still remembers catching a Painted Lady in his hands at the age of five and has altered it transferring some of its colours onto his palmby such things. Rainbow dustIndeed, he dubbed global warming has caused climate change, which, if itcontinues, will make the world unrecognisable. 'It was a Nabokov moment because only he could put into words what most of us can only feel: For the frankly sensual moment in world to become fuller, for it to be a child's life when world that seeks to provide for the full force needs of nature is felt for the first timeevery living thing, then it needs to change.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703184</amazonuk>