Posts by richard comont

UK butterfly numbers hit hard

IT angle

We store the records in databases and analyse them in R. There's your IT angle

Brown blushes over green cuts

Nature England

Incidentally, it's *Natural* England: they're already financially crippled as a result of having >100m taken from their budget before the organisation was launched last year, with the result that they could afford to pay staff, etc, but not run any new projects - ie, no new practical conservation projects. Pretty good for a conservation organisation, no? The fact that they're even contemplating slashing the budget further shows just how paper-thin the government's 'commitment' to the environment actually is...