Ryszard Kulik – doctor of psychology, naturalist, columnist of the monthly “Wild Life” magazine, author of books devoted to man-nature relations, including “Man Towards Nature”, “Discovering Nature” or “Treading Strongly on the Ground”. Mark writes: I’m very grateful for this guest blog from Poland about the conflict over Bialowieza. The English is almost perfect and…
Year: 2017
Does your CEO tweet (2)?
Back in April 2015 I listed some CEOs of wildlife organisations who were on Twitter and their number of tweets and number of followers. It was really just out of interest. And in the same vein here is an update. David Nussbaum has moved on from WWF and is now CEO of ‘The Elders’. Martin…
Look at the birds of the air…
Colin Bibby recruited me to the RSPB – for which I will always be grateful (and the story of that is in Fighting for Birds p 30). Colin passed away 13 years ago, and is still missed by those of us who worked with him, his other friends, and of course relations. As his gravestone…
Thunderous Findlay Wilde
A social media thunderclap is a device where a single message is sent out to the social media contacts of everyone who signs up. So if you follow me, @markavery, on Twitter, or if you are my friend on Facebook, then you will get this message at 09:30 on 12 August: ‘I want to see…
Oscar Dewhurst – Purple Heron
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Oscar writes: While in the Doñana National Park we spent some time around the marshes by the visitor centre looking for some of the birds the area is known for, such as the White-headed Duck. One bird we saw many of was the Purple Herons, which were everywhere! This one flew past at close range,…