Hi! I’m Mark Avery, this is my website,

STANDING UP FOR NATURE

Chris Packham, Mark Avery and some of the #Sodden570 at one of the first Hen Harrier Day rallies in 2014. Photo: Jim Nettle

I’ve worked in the environment movement for approaching 40 years and here you will get insights into what is happening in UK nature conservation, what should be happening and how you can help to make it happen.

This website is free for you to use; there is no registration or sign-in, no adverts and that’s how I believe it will remain.

I’m many things including;

- a critical thinker with independent opinions based on a lifetime of conservation experience
- an author of books about nature and nature conservation – click here
- a monthly columnist for Birdwatch (since 2011), columnist for British Wildlife (also since 2011) and occasional writer for newspapers and other magazines.
- a former Chair of the excellent World Land Trust
- a co-founder of Wild Justice
- a senior conservationist with 25 years at the RSPB and 14+ years subsequently as an independent campaigner
- a scientist with a PhD on bat behaviour (long time ago – 1983)
- a not-bad birder and keen but barely adequate all-round naturalist
- a husband, father and grandfather