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We’re Deaf to Doom & Gloom. CB

A recent post on the Scientific American Blog EvoEcoLab really stuck a chord with me. The article is entitled The (Mis)use of Messaging in Biodiversity Loss Prevention. The crux of the essay is that the typical environmental messaging of species … Continue reading

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The expertise of others. AP

Not untypically I began this blog post over a month ago, started meandering slowly toward an end point about which I was unsure, got frustrated and left it for a while only for a similar subject to appear in one of Niall’s more … Continue reading

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The Wildphotos Declaration 2010. PHD

I have just received an email from the organisers of WildPhotos and know many of you might have received it too.  But, here is the chance to sign a declaration about something that should concern (and does) many of us … Continue reading

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Ethics before images – it’s about time! AP

And so the witchhunt has begun, the vitriol is being enthusiastically spouted, the sanctimonious (me) are galloping around on their high horses whilst all the time the air is thick with the familiar smell of hypocrisy…..the target of all of … Continue reading

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Crying Wolf – a tale of our times? PHD

In the replies to the article I wrote on camera traps and ethics, eagle eyed readers of this blog might have noticed a short-lived posting (23rd November 2009) from a Spanish source “Vince” that alleged the Veolia competition-winning, wolf picture … Continue reading

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Flexibility or lack of focus!

I’ve posted these sanderling images as an example of how I frequently end up doing something far removed from what I originally intended. I intended to sit down today and write about Lincolnshire’s famous/infamous grey seal rookeries as it is … Continue reading

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Camera Traps and ethics. PHD.

We live in amazing times where advances in digital technology can allow insights into nature previously not possible. We humans perturb and often contaminate systems by our presence. I would suggest that, far from ‘cheating’, photographers with camera traps are showing their immense respect for animals and a deep concern for their welfare. Success does not come without detailed observation and study first. Surely, we must applaud that?
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VINE

Values In Nature And the Environment is right up my street: a bunch of mud-on-their-boots nature conservationists willing to talk about the ethical dimension of our relationship with the natural world. You may believe that what we need right now … Continue reading

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