Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)). Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…
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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
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 42 Calderdale Energy Park by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Sunday book review – Nature Needs You by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
This is a good tale about the ups and downs of being a novice, but effective, environmental campaigner. It’s almost a ‘how to’ guide and it is based on the author’s experience of campaigning to get bird bricks (used by Swifts and other species) mandated as parts of new buildings. It is a case study…
Sunday book review – The Cuckoo Calls the Year by Peter Stroh
The author is a proper botanist (see my review of a very different earlier book he co-authored) and he doesn’t live very far away from me – down the Nene Valley in a place where it is probably mostly called the ‘Neen’ whereas up here we call it the ‘Nenn’ but I have never…
Storm 2
I stopped the car in a pleasant valley in West Wales last Monday and listened to Start the Week which had a very environmental content with Robert Macfarlane plugging his new book, Is a River Alive?, lawyer Monica Feria-Tinta talking about protecting habitats and plugging her book, A Barrister for the Earth, and Patrick Galbraith…