Being simultaneously sad but incredibly happy at the same time is an odd feeling but that's whats currently going on in my head now that I've been offered a permanent job! I'm sad to be leaving my traineeship early and ...
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Creating Magnificence, Meadows for Everyone!!
I'll grant you every habitat has something special about it, an aspect of itself that causes you to stop and become exceedingly aware of your existence. I'm talking about the misty morning in a wooded valley when the dawn ...
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Jack of All Trades! The Life of a Conservation Mercenary!
This job is rarely the same every week, or everyday for that matter! One day I might be telling a community group that people used to reccomend chewing bramble leaves as a cure for tooth ache (don't try that) and the next ...
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“What happens if you stick your finger into the Faerie world for 1 second???”
If you are going to tell a group of school kids about how a lone Hawthorn tree signifies an entrance into the faerie world where time stands still then do it at the end of an event, not the beginning! Otherwise that question ...
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Birdsong, Willow Art, Feely Boxes, and Bumblebees! No one day’s the same!
One of the most crucial things that we can do as conservationists is not conserve species, measure trends, manage habitats but simply make everybody else aware of what we already have! I'm not talking about the ...
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You have to think 4th dimensionally in Conservation!
Just thought I'd start with a nice shot of Lough Erne to grab your attention but now that I've got it lets get to the point. One of the difficulties of working in conservation is that you often have to imagine ...
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Going for Green! On a mission for Eco-School success!
Imagine if that was the view from your school playground! How awesome would that be? When I went to school in Bangor we had a field that we were allowed to run around in during the summer months and that was the height of our ...
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First week out west!
So last week I (Simon Gray) moved across to the opposite side of my relatively small country to county Fermanagh to start my new role as the Lough Erne Living Landscape trainee. The TCV branch in this neck of the woods has ...
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