My copy of the February edition of British Wildlife has arrived. If you don't already know it, I recommend that you subscribe to this wonderful little magazine. Always packed with information, there is more than enough to keep you going for the two months before the next one arrives.
What caught my eye this time was Wild Apples.
The eight page article by Richard Worrell, Markus Ruhsam and James Renny will tell you things you never knew about what most of us refer to as the Crab Apple tree. Wild Apple is to be preferred as the name, they say, because it underlines that it is a species native to the British Isles. It's been here since the last ice Age, apparently.
Wild apple is recorded as having 93 species of associated invertebrates, the seventh highest of all British trees & shrubs. Kennedy & Southwood 1984
There's more than apples here though. There are two major article on Rewilding. The first, by Steve Carver and Ian Convery, sketches in the history of the rewilding movement and what it means in practice. I haven't finished reading it yet but I can tell you: this is good. There are things here we all need to know.
Then there are the regulars: Habitat management news; Wildlife reports; Conservation news and the four or five guest columns.
Subscribe to British Wildlife. You won't regret it.
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