Peter Marren
Peter is a writer, naturalist and conservationist. His latest book is The Devil’s Garden: The World’s Most Sinister Plants and Fungi.
Recent articles by Peter Marren
“When pressed, it has a nasty smell – hence its folk name of Stinking Bob”
Herb Robert is also known as ‘death come-quickly’
8 lost British animals that are now extinct in the whole world
We are facing a mass extinction, with many species now endangered or lost forever. Here, Peter Marren gives us a run down of the British animals that are now extinct – and a few which we thought were too, but happily turned out not to be.
12 seeds to find and identify this autumn
Many late-summer flowers are now in seed. We have illustrated 12 distinctive species to look for this autumn.
The weird world of the bug
For centuries, ‘bugs’ have entered our lives and thoughts in countless ways. We explore the always fascinating, often amusing and occasionally revolting meeting ground between people and bugs.
