bitis rhinocerostip

Excerpt from the Reconnecting Nature and Economics debate at Communicate 2011, chaired by Ed Gillespie (Director and Co-Founder, Futerra Sustainability Communications) and featuring Juliet Davenport (CEO, Good Energy), Katherine Symonds (Head of Sustainable Olympic Games, Coca-Cola), Paul Morling (Head of Economics, RSPB) and Professor Paul van Gardingen (Director, Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation)

Presentation delivered by Heather McFarlane, Bat Conservation Trust, as part of the Delegate Showcase session at Communicate 2011. Communicate is the annual conference for environmental communicators and is an initiative of the Bristol Natural History Consortium.

Keynote address delivered by Martin Brasher, Head of Wildlife, Habitats and Biodiversity, Defra, at Communicate 2011. Communicate is the annual conference for environmental communicators and is an initiative of the Bristol Natural History Consortium.

Video message from Pavan Sukhdev, McCluskey Fellow, Yale University and former study leader of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), delivered as part of the Reconnecting Nature and Economics debate session at Communicate 2011. Communicate is the annual conference for environmental communicators, and is an initiative of the Bristol Natural History Consortium.

Recorded today (20th May 2011) at Tyntesfield, Bristol Bioblitz

Bug hunting with Pete the bug man!

Martin Spray on the theme of "Connecting with Nature" at the Communicate 2010 conference. More information at www.communicatenow.org. (Part 1 or 2)

Presentation delivered by Dr Michael Pocock, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, as part of the Delegate Showcase session at Communicate 2011. Communicate is the annual conference for environmental communicators and is an initiative of the Bristol Natural History Consortium.

Keynote address delivered by Tessa McGregor, conservation biologist and journalist, at Communicate 2011. Communicate is the annual conference for environmental communicators, and is an initiative of the Bristol Natural History Consortium.

Presentation delivered by Professor Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science, University of Oxford, as part of the Elephant in the Room session at Communicate 2011. Communicate is the annual conference for environmental communicators, and is an initiative of the Bristol Natural History Consortium.

Fiona Reynolds on the theme of "Connecting with Nature" at the Communicate 2010 conference. More information at www.communicatenow.org. (Part 1 of 2)

On a sunny day in May, the Bioblitz team cool off by the side of a pond rich in aquatic life.

Join Ray Barnett from the Bristol City Museum as he navigates us through the UK's most common moths.

Presentation delivered by Dr Rebecca Edwards, Research Fellow at the Third Sector Research Centre, University of Southampton, as part of the Living with Environmental Change - Co-ordinating Across Sectors session at Communicate 2011. Communicate is the annual conference for environmental communicators and is an initiative of the Bristol Natural History Consortium.

Presentation delivered by Professor Aubrey Manning, Professor Emeritus of Natural History, University of Edinburgh and Patron, Population Matters, as part of the Elephant in the Room session at Communicate 2011. Communicate is the annual conference for environmental communicators, and is an initiative of the Bristol Natural History Consortium.

As darkness falls the Bristol Bioblitz team head out with their bat detectors. Bats love living in the edges between habitats where insects are plentiful.