Nicola Chester

Nature Writer and Activist

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  • Nature Notes

    An Almanac of Anger & Hope. I don’t know at what point the melancholy strikes and despair seeps in, but I am sure there is a pattern: a seasonal almanac of frustration and bitterness. Chalk grassland, rarer than rainforest, has been overgrazed for another year, resulting in no flowers so far, since April:  fewer butterflies, […]

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  • Nature Notes

    Polecat Alley On Midsummer Night, polecats are making merry in the field behind the house. They are hidden deep in the rape crop but there is no mistaking them: barks and growls rise to a hysterical yikkering, haunting whines and murderous wails. My daughter and three friends are sleeping in a tepee in the garden […]

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