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Websites
- British Beekeeper's Association
- The BBKA works to promote bees and beekeeping and to provide a range of member services to beekeepers in the UK
- Welsh Beekeeper's Association
- Keeping Welsh beekeepers informed
- Central Science Laboratory
- An organisation dedicated to applying science in protection of food chain safety and environmental health
- Plants for Life
- About the importance of plants and why we need them
- Metcheck
- A company supplying meteorological, hydrological and marine instruments
- BGCI: Plants For The Planet
- It is estimated that up to 100,000 plants, representing more than one third of all the world's plant species, are currently threatened or face extinction in the wild. BGCI brings together the botanic gardens to work for plant conservation through science, education and horticulture.
- FloralImages
- Pictures of wildflowers and garden flowers grown in West-England, Ireland and the Pyrenees, indexed by botanical and common names.
Books
- General System Theory
- Author: Ludwig Von Bertalanfy
Description: A collection of essays, exploring the seeds of systems theory, its foundations, development and applications
ISBN: 0807604534 - Philosophy of the Organism
- Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Description: Philosophy of the Organism.
ISBN: 1406775967 - The Scientific Attitude
- Author: C.H.Waddington
Description: Published in 1941 this book honours the awaking of people’s attitudes to science
ISBN: - - Honeybee Ecology
- Author: Thomas D Seeley
Description: Behavioural biology
ISBN: 0691083924 - The Biology of the Honeybee
- Author: Mark L Winston
Description: All you need to know about the honey bee
ISBN: 0674074092 - Bees of the World
- Author: Christopher O'Toole and Anthony Raw
Description: A reference book for naturalists and amateurs
ISBN: 0816057125 - Guide to Bees and Honey
- Author: Ted Hooper
Description: A guide to beekeeping
ISBN: 1904846246 - Bees at the Bottom of the Garden
- Author: Alan Campion
Description: This book aims to take the mystique out of keeping bees
ISBN: 0907908977 - Plants and Honeybees: Their Relationship
- Author: David Aston and Sally Bucknall
Description: How the European honey bee utilises the flowers and plants in the British Isles
ISBN: 190484619X - Silent Spring
- Author: Rachel Carson
Description: First published in 1962, this book draws a tragic picture of what the effects of pesticides & insecticides can have on human life.
ISBN: 0141184949 - Wild Food
- Author: Roger Phillips
Description:
ISBN: 1 - Wild Food
- Author: Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman
Description:
ISBN: 1 - Culpeppers Colour Herbal
- Author: David Potterton Culpepper
Description:
ISBN: 1 - Food for Free
- Author: Richard Mabey
Description:
ISBN: 1
Organisations
- Patagonia Land Trust
- Protection and restoration of wildland ecosystems and biodiversity in Patagonia
- Landlife
- Working mainly in urban and urban fringe areas, to bring nature and people closer together.
- Arboricultural Association
- The Arboricultural Association, which was founded in 1964, is the leading body in the UK for the amenity tree care professional in either civic or commercial employment at craft, technical, supervisory, managerial or consultancy level.
- Tree Advice Trust
- An independent charity whose aims are to research and disseminate practical information and guidance on the cultivation, maintenance and care of trees grown for amenity.
- Kew Garden
- To inspire and deliver science-based plant conservation worldwide, enhancing the quality of life.
- Botanic Gardens, Cambridge
- A 40 acre oasis of beautifully landscaped gardens and glasshouses right in the heart of the city
