Peter Marren

Peter Marren (born 1950) is a British nature writer, journalist, naturalist, conservationist, and military historian. He is the author, or co-author, of more than 20 books. Quotes ... being rare often means your genetic resources are limited, and that makes you vulnerable to change. Small populations are also liable to be picked off by chance events, like a shrub growing up in front of you, or that new borehole for a new housing estate dug a few metres away. Conservation has recently come to the aid of many threatened plants, drawing many a little further back from the brink, but perhaps at some cost to their inherent wildness ... But the wise conservationist will aim at preventing flowers from reaching that state of extreme vulnerability in the first place. Britain's Rare Flowers T. & A. D. Poyser Ltd A Volume in the Poyser Natural History Series 1999 9780856611148 9 (334 pages; 1st part of quote last part of quote) An average Woodland wood produces about five tonnes of debris per hectare per year. The Fungus fungi get through this mountain of raw cellulose by sheer numbers. Fungi make up about 10% of the weight of living matter (biomass) in a wood. They are the weightiest component of all, bar the trees. You would require a convoy of dump trucks to remove the fungi of just a small copse. Yet all we see of them are their scattered Sporocarp (fungus) fruit bodies in autumn. Mushrooms: The natural and human world of British fungi British Wildlife Collection Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 9781472958518 https://books.google.com/books?id=0fBMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 24–25 (272 pages; 1st edition 2012) I can't say I have ever had much of a passion for proper Field research scientific fieldwork. In fact, on about the only occasion I ever did any, I disliked the experience very much. I was about 23, and, wearying of ever finding a full-time job in nature conservation, I got myself enrolled as a temporary member of staff at a northern university where I spent about four months on a cold, treeless fell, counting Gentiana gentians. It was very boring and drove me to the bottle. Chapter 31. My Date with the Devil by Peter Marren Curious about Nature: A Passion for Fieldwork Cambridge University Press 2020 9781108625876 https://books.google.com/books?id=2onPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA259 259–263 (quote from p. 259, edited by Tim Burt & Des Thompson) England is said to be one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. It has lost most of its big wild animals. A thousand years ago in my village, which was quite a big place even then, beavers used to build their dams on my river. Perhaps a thousand years before that the villagers might have heard a wolf howl from a distant down of a rumour of bears in the forests that extended that extended for mile after mile. Even a hundred years ago, there would have been far more wild flowers, particularly at the edge of the cornfields, colourful blooms whose names attest to their former familiarity: Scandix pecten-veneris shepherd's needle, Agrostemma githago corn cockle, Lysimachia arvensis poor man's weather-glass. Introduction: Different ways of dying out After They're Gone: Extinctions Past, Present and Future Hodder & Stoughton 2022 9781529393415 https://books.google.com/books?id=6bxhEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 (320 pages) Woodland Heritage (1990) The oak has long been a symbol of strength and, with the growth of the Royal Navy, also patriotic pride. It once fought our naval battles and carried our cargoes, framed our houses and spanned the roofs of cathedrals and barns, fed our pigs, tanned our leather and nourished our earliest industries. Woodland Heritage Volume 2 of Britain's ancient woodland David & Charles 1990 9780715394366 https://books.google.com/books?id=AflEAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=navy 18 (185 pages) Archaeological excavations of Mesolithic hunting camps built about 9,500 years ago indicate that by that time Britain had become densely wooded. At Star Carr, in the Vale of Pickering is North Yorkshire north-east Yorkshire, bones and antlers from a variety of mammals were uncovered, including red deer and elk in abundance, wild boar, aurochs (a prehistoric wild ox), beaver, wolf, European pine marten pine marten, badger, fox and hedgehog. p. 131 Butterflies attract attention and cash because they are popular and attractive, and because there are rightly seen as symbols of wildlife in decline. p. 160 External links Peter Marren Penguin Random House https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/271875/peter-marren/ Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Columnists from England Category:Environmentalists from England Category:Journalists from England Category:Naturalists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Science authors Category:University of Exeter alumni Category:Historians from England