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30th January, 201830th January, 2018 Matthew Chatfield 4 Comments gift to nature, isle of wight

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

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Giant African land snail

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment

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

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Tractor music

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments

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

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Geology rocks up to your desktop

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 3 Comments

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

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Im in ur genome, infectin ur flies

31st August, 2007 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments

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

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How to roll down a hill with a friend

23rd June, 2007 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment

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

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David Miliband MP – the handsomest Environment Secretary in Westminster

27th March, 2007 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment

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

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Seb Przd’s intriguing photographs

15th February, 2007 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments

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

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See a huge slug devour a flower

4th February, 2007 Matthew Chatfield 3 Comments

The magic of YouTube once more draws The Ranger’s attention to an outsize invertebrate: This massive slug is from the

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National What Week?

14th January, 2007 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments

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

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