I received this charming children's book about herring gulls as a gift recently. It was published by 't Widde Vool in the Netherlands in 1985. Text by Conny Sýkora, illustrations by Sacha van Dulm
#HerringGulls #birds #environment #books #nature #illustration
The biggest surprise was that the book was a fundraiser by a Dutch environmental group to buy and conserve an Irish bog
#conservation #environment #Ireland #bog #peatlands #ecology
Via @psneeze, a coda on that Dutch–Irish campaign to save the bogs in Ireland:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250204213033/www.ipcc.ie/a-to-z-peatlands/campaigns/dutch-irish-bog-conservation/
Stan Carey