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The last Great Auks

The last Great Auks, the Dodos of the North Atlantic, were probably caught and killed in 1844 on a rock called Eldey off the south-west coast of…

Apr 12 •

Richard Fleming

Get Off My Land Again!

This has been quite a week.

Apr 2 •

Richard Fleming

December 2024

I have been very busy lately working on a campaign to stop the export of elvers from the River Severn.

Dec 18, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

November 2024

From the Sublime...

Nov 15, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

October 2024

Looking a bit like a Penis

Fairly recently, in the huge scale of time when tiny transparent young eels ( glass eels or elvers) have been quietly infusing our estuaries, swimming…

Oct 20, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

September 2024

Peas and Queues

Please note that I have updated Let’s get Together to give a better link direct to my petition.

Sep 29, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

Let's get together!

The Bluefin Tuna have been breaching like whales off the coast of Cornwall, a vision of the sort of exuberant plenty that is possible if we stop seeing…

Sep 28, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

June 2024

How Many Woodcock should a Woodcock shooter shoot?

We were walking up Llanvihangel Hill, in that strange border country where the landscape is described in Welsh that the locals can no longer understand.

Jun 13, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

May 2024

The End of Elvering

I have a few odd jugs and bowls about the cottage where I keep things that might one day be useful or that I can’t bring myself to throw away.

May 17, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

April 2024

Eels Then and Now

This is a map of the wetlands of a river catchment system in southern Sweden, on the south-west coastal plain, before drainage work began in the 1820s…

Apr 18, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

March 2024

High in the Orrels above the Goosepool

High in the Orrels, when there were still geese around the Goosepool, they have nested longer than anyone can remember.

Mar 14, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

February 2024

Ghostly Landscapes

Either side of the train, flat black soil, landscape at its purest – land, and a scape unbroken until it met the sky.

Feb 2, 2024 •

Richard Fleming

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