This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Mary Anning Would Have Been Out, Like a Shot!
The biggest UK rock fall for 60 years, has occurred on Dorset's Jurassic Coast (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/jurassic-coast-cliff-collapses-in-biggest-uk-rockfall-for-60-years). The Jurassic Coast is a UNESCO World Hertitage site, where Victorian Mary Anning (subject of a recent film) collected fossils, to help develop the science of Palaeontology. The collapse, involving thousands of tonnes of fossil-bearing rocks, appears to be a consequence of the area drying out.
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Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.
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