Were you listening to Today on Radio 4 this morning when there was a discussion about intensive farming and intensive broiler chicken production (listen here at 51 minutes into programme)? There is a planning application near where I live for a new intensive broiler unit to rear day-old chicks to table weight. Ten poultry sheds…
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
It’s Big Match fortnight
WLT Treasure Chest Appeal – save the green gold of the Caribbean. Sierra Santa Cruz is the last unprotected rainforest in Caribbean Guatemala. From jaguars and pumas to bejewelled hummingbirds, golden bats and Critically Endangered frogs, this mountain range is a wild treasure chest. But this rich habitat is under threat. Deforestation for Oil Palm…
Hawk and Owl Trust – don’t mention the Hen Harrier!
Rather bizarrely, the Hawk and Owl Trust does not mention the Hen Harrier in its Annual Report covering the period April 2016 – March 2017. Surely one of the H&OT’s project was, and still is, one of satellite-tagging Hen Harriers – didn’t they satellite tag two Hen Harriers at Langholm in the summer of 2016? …
Natural England EIR request – Hen Harrier data
Dear Natural England In 2008 Natural England published an excellent, interim, report on its Hen Harrier study entitled ‘A future for the Hen Harrier in England?‘. In that report you state that ‘In three incidents nests had been destroyed by illegal burning‘. Please tell me: In which county/ies did these incidents occur? Were these incidents…
Natural England EIR request – Hen Harrier Mick
Dear Natural England, You issued a press release about a Hen Harrier called Mick on 7 February 2017 in which you stated that Mick’s disappearance had been reported to the North Yorkshire Police. Your director, Rob Cooke, said ‘The disappearance of a hen harrier is deeply concerning to all who appreciate these rare and impressive…