Michael McCarthy
Michael McCarthy, formerly the Independent’s longstanding Environment Editor, now its Environment Columnist, is one of Britain’s leading writers on the environment and the natural world. He has won a string of awards for his work, including Environment Journalist of the Year (three times) and Specialist Writer of the Year in the British Press Awards in 2001. In 2007 he was awarded the Medal of the RSPB for “Outstanding Services to Conservation,” in 2010 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London, and in 2011 the Dilys Breeze Medal of the British Trust for Ornithology. In 2009 McCarthy published Say Goodbye To The Cuckoo (John Murray), a study of Britain’s declining migrant birds.
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Nature Studies: Cross the Atlantic in a ship? The beautiful Monarch can do better than that
16 May 2013 12:00 AM
To a British enthusiast, it's a once-in-a-lifetime encounter. Oxford don Professor EB Ford caught sight of one in 1941 and set off in frenzied pursuit.
Nature Studies: The disappearing turtle dove
08 May 2013 05:28 PM
According to the latest analysis, this legendary bird has only eight years left till extinction. That's far too short a time to appreciated its breathtaking beauty
Nothing signifies spring quite like blossom mixed with birdsong
01 May 2013 03:43 PM
It’s long been hard to find an image for the peculiar intensity of spring
Why half a million fritillaries didn’t make it this year
24 April 2013 03:42 PM
There had been a colossal smothering, truly weird to witness
Once upon a time, in a land before pesticide, wildlife was so abundant
17 April 2013 04:09 PM
Visiting the restored ecosystem of the Norfolk Estate, under which the grey partridge once naturally flourished is like stepping back in time
Meet Chris – a totally new kind of cuckoo clock
10 April 2013 05:53 PM
The call of the cuckoo is the most musical sound in all of nature - but clock makers don't often capture it right
This frozen spring has cost us the buzz of the English bumblebee
03 April 2013 05:24 PM
As you may have noticed, it's far too cold for our beloved bumblebees, but here's what to do while we wait...
Man is fallen and will destroy the Earth – but at least we greens made him wait
29 March 2013 03:47 PM
This will be my last week as Environment Editor after 15 years at The Independent.
It has been a privilege to work for a newspaper which puts the environment first
This Easter, don’t forget that resurrection is for flowers too
27 March 2013 06:47 PM
This marks the waking of the natural world after winter’s deadness
British butterfly species facing extinction after wettest summer
26 March 2013 12:00 AM
The weather created disastrous conditions for species such as fritillaries
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