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Incorporating The Ranger's Blog

The now entirely virtual ranger

Back in 1989 I discovered that people would actually pay me to work in the countryside. I could hardly believe

We heard you wanted to see a picture of a simply enormous snail. So here it is: This massive beast

I used to have a tractor like this. Starting it was fun, but stopping it usually took about half-an-hour of

The British Geological Survey has long been the alma mater of Britain’s rock nerds. Now it’s coming to your desktop

How awesome is this? The bacterium Wolbachia is thought to parasitically infect “70 percent of the world’s invertebrates, coevolving with

Now this looks like fun: English Country Walks Blog has published a video and full instructions on how to perform

The Ranger was doing some slightly worthy homework reading up on the Marine Bill White Paper. Intending to write a

Enjoy these beautiful and intriguing photographs of trees, and people, enjoying the outdoors on ‘little planets’. Taken by Seb Przd

The magic of YouTube once more draws The Ranger’s attention to an outsize invertebrate: [youtube]ZQYDkwGYqDk[/youtube] This massive slug is from

Naturenet regularly updates many pages, but this one gets done every year – and every year it’s a right chore.