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Charles Darwin: 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882.Darwin was a British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific the-ory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolu-tion in his 1859 book On the Origin of

Species, overcoming scientific rejection.

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Sir David Attenborough: 8 May 1926Sir David Attenborough is Britains best-known natural his-tory film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcast-er has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited.He was Controller of BBC2 (1965-68), during which time he introduced colour television to Britain, then Director of Programmes for the BBC.Over the last 25 years he has established himself as the world-s leading natural history programme maker with sev-eral landmark BBC series, including Life on Earth.

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Walter Henry Bates: 8 February 1825-16 February 1892.He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848.When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14,000 species.Wallace and Bates discussed the idea of an expedition to the Amazon rainforest, the plan being to cover expenses by sending specimens back to London.enry Bates was one of a group of outstanding naturalist-explorers who were supporters of the theory of evolution.

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Alfred Russel Wallace: 8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913.British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropolo-gist and biologist.Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Ama-zon River, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.He was known as the Father of biogeography.

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John James Audubon: April 26, 1785 January 27, 1851.French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustra-tions that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, The Birds of North America.Audubon set about to study American birds, determined to

illustrate his findings in a more realistic manner.

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Ferdinand Bauer: 20 January 1760 17 March 1826.Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders expedition to Australia.auer-s sketched the flora and fauna of the Austra-lian coast and Norfolk Island, but he mostly known for his illustrations of Austrailian wildlife.

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Sir Joseph Banks: 13 February 1743 - 19 June 1820Banks was a British explorer and naturalist who, as long-time president of the Royal Society, became known for his promotion of science. Banks travelled to New-foundland.Banks was interested in plants that could be used for practical purposes and be introduced into other coun-tries for possible commercial use.

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James Cook: 27 October 1728 - 14 February 1779Cook was an 18th century explorer and navigator whose achievements in mapping the Pacific, New Zealand and Aus-tralia radically changed western perceptions of world ge-ography.Cook-s third voyage was to find the North-West Pas-sage that was believed to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.Cook tried to take the local leader hostage. There was a scuffle and Cook was stabbed and killed.

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Matthew Flinders: 16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814Flinders was one of the most succesful navigators of 19th century Britan.He circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, he survived a shipwreck oly to be captured and put in jail for violating his scientific pass-port, by jumping ships.Flinders work had come to the attention of many of the sci-entists of the day, such as Sir Joseph Banks.

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Thomas Bewick: 12 August 1753 - 8 November 1828.Bewick was a local artist that mainly fo-cused his work on the life and habitats of animals and birds.His work was creaed by using wood block printing.H e would carve hard woods and use intri-

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Dian Fossey: January 16, 1932 - December 26, 1985Fossey was an American zoologist who undertook an exten-sive study of gorilla groups, She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda. Fossey financed patrold so destroy Gorilla traps in the Rwanda forrest to bring an end to the poaches that strolled the forrest to capture young infant Gorillas.

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Jane Goodall: 3 April 1934Goodall along with Fossey undertook the safe keeping of Gorillas, in her research she belived that the human tour-ist was destroying the population of Gorillas by passing on deseases that the Gorilla could not fight off.Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and

family interactions of wild chimpanzees and Gorillas.

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Gerald Durrell: January 7, 1925 - January 30, 1995Durrell was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, au-thor, and television presenter. He founded what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo.Durrell-s growing disillusionment with the way zoos of the time were run, and his belief that they should primarily act as reserves and regenerators of endangered species, made him contemplate founding his own zoo.

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Peter Scott: 14 September 1909 - 29 August 1989Peter Scott was one of the founders of the World Wide Fund for Nature and designed its panda logo.He was also a great painter mainly focusing on birds and birds in flight, and he is also remebered for giving the scientific name to the Loch Ness monster (Nessiteras rhombopteryx).

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Oliver Rackham: Rackham is an acknowledged authority on the Brit-ish countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture, Rackham has written a number of well-known books, including The History of the Countryside and one on Hatfield Forest.His love and work that he has achieved for the English countryside has earned him and OBE.

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Richard Sydney Richmond Fitter: 1 March 1913 -3 September 2005.Fitter was a British naturalist and author. He was an expert on wild flowers and the author of several guides for amateur naturalists.In his guides instead of grouping flowers by name he used to group them by colour. He was also one of the leading figures in the international wildlife conservation movement.

Flora and Fauna of Hamsterley Forrest.

Flora and Fauna of Hamsterley Forrest.

My travels to Hamsterley For-est: on the was the roads where bombarded by trees and the road side held many a creature such as rabits and Pheasents.

Hamsterley is a popular naturist and walkers destination it cov-ers over 5000 acres of land and is mainly populated with pine trees and its spectacular run-ning waterfalls, that cascade down the mountain side.

On the left there is a photo-graph of what seemed like a common bush leading up to the forrest, they are rhododendron, the lilac flowers made the bush stand out from the woodland around.

There where comunial parks and picnic areas for all walks of life to enjoy, there where mul-tiple walks to go on, some that where for the less experienced walker but others for the more confident.

Trees populated most of the areas I visited, on most of the walks it was nearly imposible to see the sky because of the woodland around, which harbours alot of wildlife.

The beautiful landscape col-ects alot of colour, the red trees of spring and the blue-bells that where ready to die when we visited.

The colour sculps the land and it is a welcome change to the eyes when there is an injec-tion of colour, but the green makes up for a beautiful scene shot, and it is nearly imposi-ble to imagine that this is so close to our larger citys such as Sunderland and Newcastle.

All around the trees where blooming and the public footpaths really hightened your enjoyment bacause you never missed a thing.The blossoms on the tree attracted not just eyes but was an attraction point for insects and Bee-s.All around the floor where new saplings of trees and plants a like, it was like walking with the new generation of the forrest.

The Green Man statue is the focus point of the forest, it is situated off the side of the mai road that runs through the forrest.

This wonderful sculpture fits in great with the sceenery, it has three different faces and every face is different, and the carved wood really shows how craft and nature go hand in hand.

There where three stools around the statues each one discribing the each face.

This carving is almost like the mascot of Hamsterley, it felt to me like at a night time the animals all gather around and celebrate the silence of the forrest.

The park has a visitors cen-tre where you can pick up leaflets on the walks you can take in the forrest but there is also signs all around the forrest keeping you on track.

There where Fern saplings all around the forrest the magnificent leaves spread out over the ground, and the Laburnum where like golden chains dangling down from the branches, the golden yellow colour filled the tree and it attracted the light of the sun.

While i was there i was lucky enough to meet Dr David Bellamy.He was a lovely man who was incread-ibly enthusiastic about the forrest he lives just before the forrests main opening and it inpired me to really take in my surroundings, and not take it for granted.

We found a lot of Oak tree saplings around and this was a really great thing to see when the tree is so cominly used no a days we re-ally need to take care of our nature and not allow it to become ex-tinct.

I saw fungi also but i could not find out what this particular mush-room was, it was very black in colour and it was the only one i could find on my walk around the forrest.

On the left is a picture of the pine trees that cover this land and the needles and the colour of the needles where so fresh, it really does bring out a great smell around the forrest, on our walk around i could see that there where a lot that where being cut down, but the hight in which they grow is rather amazing.

The top picture there is a picture of a insect that i saw a lot but I could not find out what it was, it did not fly or congrigate around the walkers like mosquito-s.