The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (36 page)

spring,
130–1
,
136
,
147

stonechat,
37

Sublime: concept of,
44

Summers-Smith, Denis,
107
,
111
,
113–18

The House Sparrow
,
108

sunset,
129–30

Surui (Amerindian tribe),
192–3

sustainable development,
245

swallowtail (butterfly),
190–1
,
211
,
235

Tansley, Sir Arthur,
22–3

Tasmanian tiger,
206

tea cards,
36–7
,
39

TEEB Project (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity),
27
,
245

Thames, river,
179–88

Thames Salmon Rehabilitation Scheme,
184
,
187

Thames Salmon Trust,
186

Thomas, Caitlin,
173

Thomas, Dylan,
53
,
173

Thomas, Edward,
158

Thomas, Jeremy,
235–6

Thorburn, Archibald,
38

Thoreau, Henry David,
45
,
48
,
55
,
75

tiger: demand for bones,
72

Toulouse,
190

Town and Country Planning Act (1947),
89

Transcendentalists,
45

Tunnicliffe, Charles F.,
37
,
39
,
42
,
49

Shorelands Summer Diary
,
39

Turner, Gill,
138–40

Tutt, J. W.:
British Butterlies
,
99

Ulrich, Roger,
60–1
,
217

United Nations

Millennium Ecosystems Assessment,
25
,
27

‘Our Common Future’ (report, 1987),
21

World Urbanization Prospects
,
126

United States of America

and agricultural poisons,
93

farming and wildernesses separated,
89

wildernesses,
44–8
,
75

urbanisation,
125–7

Vatican Council, Second (1962),
54

Vincent, Kate,
115–16

Virunga National Park, (Democratic Republic of Congo),
244

Viscri, Transylvania,
210

Vivaldi, Antonio Lucio:
Nulla in mundo pax sincera
(motet),
217

wagtail

pied,
39

yellow,
38

Wain, Martin,
234

Wainwright, Dave,
234

Wales: character,
51–2

Walker, Kevin,
98

Walter, Michael,
236

Warne, Frederick & Co. (publishers),
37–8

Warren, Martin,
232
,
237–8

Watkins-Pitchford, Denys (‘BB’)

Down the Bright Stream
,
12
,
170

The Little Grey Men
,
11–12
,
170

Watts, Bernard,
235

Waugh, Evelyn:
Brideshead Revisited
,
224

whales,
197–201
,
203

Deraniyagala’s beaked,
207

Perrin’s beaked,
207

rare species,
207

spade-toothed,
206

Wheeler, Alwyne,
183–4

Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire,
243

wild flowers

decline and extinction in Britain,
97–100

development,
156

species numbers,
160

Wilderness Act (USA, 1964),
48

Wilderness Water, Berkshire,
186–7

wildernesses and wild places,
42–8
,
75

wildlife

British recording schemes,
97

conservation,
144
,
188

losses in Britain,
87–9
,
96–100
,
106

Wildlife and Wetlands Trust, Gloucestershire
see
Slimbridge

Williamson, Henry,
173

willow warbler,
39

winter solstice,
128–31
,
136

Wirral peninsula,
40–2
,
48–9

wonder,
194–7
,
201
,
203
,
209–13

woodpecker, ivory-billed,
205
,
207

wood-warblers,
162–3

Woodward, Bob,
27

Wordsworth, William,
6
,
44
,
158
,
210

Worldwide Fund for Nature (
earlier
World Wildlife Fund),
110

Wrangel Island, Siberia,
206

wryneck: near-extinction in Britain,
97

Yangtze river, China,
71
,
87

Yarrell, William:
A History of British Fishes
,
182

year: turning of,
127–36
,
151

Yellow river, China,
172

Yellow Sea,
68–70
,
72–4
,
84
,
239

Yellowstone National Park, USA,
242

Yeti (rumoured animal),
205

Yosemite National Park, California,
48

MICHAEL M
c
CARTHY
is known for his award-winning writings on the environment and the natural world, including his book-length works
The Moth Snowstorm
and
Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo
. He was the environment correspondent for
The Times
(London) and later the environment editor at
The Independent
. He has been the recipient of the Specialist Writer of the Year Award in the British Press Awards, the Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for “outstanding services to conservation,” and the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London. He lives in the United Kingdom.