It’s “Urban Plants” by Trevor Dine, which celebrates the wild plants that live with us in urban places.

“This book changed the way I thought about plants, and pavements and time spent in built up areas. I immediately started looking down a lot more.”

https://markavery.info/2025/11/30/this-blogs-book-of-2025/

#botany #plants #UrbanEcology #book #MarkAvery

This blog’s Book of 2025 – Mark Avery

#MarkAvery reminds us that it’s 111 years today since the extinction of the last passenger pigeon, a species that just a few decades earlier was the commonest bird on the planet.

https://markavery.info/2025/09/01/passenger-pigeon-day-111-years-gone/

#birds #extinction #PassengerPigeon #PassengerPigeonDay

Passenger Pigeon Day, 111 years gone – Mark Avery

Everybody is disappointed with Labour because they clearly don't listen to the Public but to the Money instead.
Many of us can see it, many of us won't be voting Labour next time, many of us probably won't even vote (for all the fucking good that ever does 🤷‍♂️ )

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/23/environmental-campaigner-mark-avery-stepping-back-wild-justice

#WildJustice #Labour #Environment #MarkAvery

Environmental activist steps back from the fight ‘disappointed’ by Labour so far

Mark Avery to stand down from role with Wild Justice but won’t completely give up campaigning, he insists

The Guardian