Jonathan Silvertown
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I am chair of the trustees of The Ecological Continuity Trust.
The ECT has been established to:
*Devise and maintain long term experiments. Experimental manipulation of temperature and rainfall will be used to anticipate the effects of expected changes in climate. Such experiments are like time-machines that will enable us to see into the future.
*Support other long-term ecological research, wherever possible
analyse and disseminate the information obtained in a way which is accessible to policy-makers, opinion-formers and decision-makers in government, commerce and non-profit institutions.
*Raise awareness of the evidence and its implications among the general public.
*Provide a beacon of best practice that may be copied elsewhere (just as Park Grass was copied in the last century).
*Raise funds for an endowment in order to ensure continuity and security of dedicated and independent funding.
I am a member of the editorial board of the New Naturalist series published by Collins. Over 100 volumes have been published since Butterflies by E.B. Ford in 1945 and the series is in a vigorous state, publishing four volumes a year. Most ecologists in Britain cut their teeth on this series. I still have the first volume I bought when still at school. It was L. Harrison Matthews’ Mammals. The series is highly collectable and some scarce volumes fetch thousands of pounds at auction. There is a collectors club website and a newsletter.
