Although an ornithologist by training, Tim Reed has a background in monitoring and data quality- starting with standardising management planning and data recording for the statutory sector, moving on to developing the widely-used Common Standards site condition model. After a long period introducing peer-reviewable data and biodiversity and ecosystem reporting models in big corporates around…
Year: 2017
Dr Coffey’s reading list (2)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do already I am providing a reading…
FSA advice on lead-shot game
The government response to the Lead Ammunition Group’s report, back in July last year, was that the Food Standard Agency’s advice is adequate. The FSA advice on human health aspects of eating game shot with lead is pretty good (although it could be better if you read the minutes of Lead Ammunition Group meetings) and…
Did you see…?
Did you see Chris Packham’s programme on Asperger’s last night? Wow! I spoke to Chris yesterday on the phone – for the first time for a couple of months – and I might see him briefly this evening. I hope the Countryside Alliance, Simon Hart MP, Nicholas Soames MP and others watched the programme too….
Last Friday
Friday was a good day. After a couple of days in Edinburgh seeing people including my son, I got the train down to London in sunshine. There were skeins of Pinkfeet flying over as we passed Dunbar, and the autumn colours in this part of Scotland are ahead of the trees back home. In London,…