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most times you go to a river or pond you’ll see a coot, moorhen or mallard. But just because they’re common doesn’t make them borin coot, with its white-shiel g. ded forehead, is the bruise The r of the waterways, and will pick a fight up to 18 years (a lot of fights with all comers. it can live in one lifetim e!), lay up eggs a year and must run to along the water on those 14 extraordinary feet befor e it can take off.

The moorhen is the coot’s smaller red-headed cousi found all over our three counties – but did you know n. it’s females who fight over it’s the the males for the pick of the bunch?

Less belligerent than coots , vigorously, They’ve even they can still defend their nests been recorded chasing off hedgehogs! Teenagers from early broods will stick around for the summer to help look after their younger brothers and sisters. as for mallards – it will be near a pond, but the quack no surprise to anyone who lives ing miles on a still day. a group of a female can be heard for of but on the ground is a sord. mallards in the sky is a flock, They are dabbling or pudd ducks which up-end in le shallow water to search for food.

Tough as anything, they’r e the ancestors of all dome ducks apart from the musc stic ovy.

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n june this year, as the end of the Rio de janeiro summit on sustainable development drew to a close, talks governments concluded months of what with weak general statements as to in they collectively intended to achieve the marrying human demands with what supply. ly sustainab can Earth s, consensu There was some general for example on the urgency of the situation, and the need to make economic growth greener. but the detailed plan necessary to avert a mass to extinction of animals and plants, or stave off the worst effects of climate change, was nowhere to be seen.

It was in some ways quite predictable that the summit would end like this. , When nearly 200 countries are involved the problem of negotiating detailed plans on what to do becomes a to solutions the if So monumental task. increasingly pressing environmental challenges are unlikely to be agreed globally, where will they come from?

During my 30-odd year career in es conservation I have seen the challeng we face being met from many different the perspectives – from negotiations in by United Nations to inspiring efforts in local communities, and most things between. amid all the complexity one thing is clear to me: there is no single levels all at action and hand, at solution will be necessary.

It strikes me that as the vacuum at the t top grows, and as the clash of divergen national interests becomes ever more other apparent, the need for action at all levels increases – in communities, towns and cities; in regions and individual countries; and among the companies who create our economic activity.

r Tony Junipe It is packed full of beautiful nature photography and is written to appeal to both the young and old.

Recent articles have included: Tony is a writer, campaigner and sustainability adviser. He is also a Trustee for our Wildlife Trust. His new book What has Nature ever done for us? is out next year

after all, what happens at the global level is, in the end, a sum of all the things happening at every other level. If ecological challenges are not being effectively dealt with where Nature , actually exists, in the woods, wetlands rivers and seas where people interact with Nature, then the global scale questions cannot be managed either.

The international frameworks we have own are helpful, but insufficient on their all to influence what happens where we they live. and if Rio is anything to go by, or are unlikely to get much stronger Two coots is why it issettle their clearer any time soon. That differ . Observe, be going to ences vital for on-the-ground work if here you will, in thethe most ere. on pretty much everywhextra ordinary the feet this UK we are lucky, not least thanks to side of an ostrich work of The Wildlife Trusts.

Their activities have become even there more important lately. Not only has at the direction clear of absence an been global level; it is also increasingly lacking muted has ent nationally. The Governm the official conservation agencies, both by slashing their budgets and by instructing them to keep out of policy-

With three issues a year, local wildlife is a must for any lover of wildlife, nature or conservation. Packed full of insightful and practical articles the magazine gives a regular insight into what’s current, what’s happening on your doorstep, how you can get more involved in wildlife and gives the latest wildlife news and events.

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making. The official conservation science base is shrinking too, so it is all the more vital that voluntary conservation groups . maintain and deepen their activities g The network of naturalists collectin data who are supported through the work of the Trusts is an increasingly valuable asset. So are the Trusts’ nature reserves, which are already being used as the basis of a more strategic Living restoration of Nature as part of the this Landscapes programme. on top of is the policy work of the Trusts, linking conservation priorities into land use doing and level, local the at decisions that right across the country. but local action isn’t just about . conserving Nature in different localities a more profound challenge has emerged in recent decades, and it is only growing g distancin ive progress the ce: in importan of people from Nature.

It takes only a minute of considered of thought to realise that 100 per cent human wellbeing and economic our development relies on Nature. but in ever more electronic and virtual culture,

the winter m colour? The chestnuts an deer often lo That’s not lose their ant are unique. T winter month tissue on ear Over the w well camoufla able to get a sort of semi-h burning off un licking their no may not have especially mun They’ve been the centre of O

Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows: our latest and in many ways greatest project to reconnect people with nature

“What happens at the global level is a sum of all the things l” happening at every other leve to dive over a how the Earth works is less and less is known by more and more people. This perhaps the biggest threat of all. If we the are to change how we live, and have policies and laws to help make our societies more sustainable, then it seems and to me that a basic understanding of, site. affinity with, Nature is a vital prerequi all of the conservationists I have ever of met have a love and understanding Nature. My guess is that if we are to e succeed in hanging on to the incredibl a diversity of life on Earth then at least little bit of that will need to be felt by case quite a few more people than is the by now. and while we can be inspired TV, there is nothing to compete with n inspiratio The ce. experien d first-han truly that can come from being in Nature changes how people think and feel.

Many of us cannot get t. The coral reef or visit a tropical rainfores to inspiration usually comes from near where we live, in a local nature reserve, guide. local a or joining a walk with are they helping people appreciate that t IN Nature is perhaps the most importan job of all, and the Wildlife Trusts are actually doing something about it.

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