It’s International Women’s Day, although it has been delayed in our wildlife NGOs. Here are the number of trustees and male trustees for a variety of wildlife NGOs (others are, of course, available) and also the gender of their Chairs and CEOs. They are in some sort of order.
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
Peregrines
The results of the 2014 Peregrine survey are now published (not very quickly). It’s good to see the detail although the overview results have been available for quite a while. Peregrines have done well in the lowlands and badly in the uplands. We already know (since 2011) at an even finer grain, for northern England,…
Podcast on #justice4henharriers with Lush’s Charlie Moores
Charlie Moores came to have a chat with me on Monday. Here is our conversation. It’s quite long – 37 minutes.
Can you guess?
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting ends on Monday 2 April. How many signatures do you think it will achieve? I’ll happily send a signed, hardback copy of Remarkable Birds, or of Fighting for Birds if you prefer, to you or a named recipient in the UK if you come…
We are 20,700 ahead
The supporters of a ban on driven grouse shooting, are now 20,700 signatures ahead of the forces of conservatism who wish this unsustainable hobby of shooting birds for fun and profit to continue. We’ve pushed on by another 1000 signatures in the last week. But it’s not quite as simple as that, as there are…