I’m always moved by these words on the back of my Labour Party membership card – a new one arrived the other day. The bit, highlighted in red above; by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone …moves me (even if, at the worst of times, it isn’t always…
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
Thank you!
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Thank you to the regular reader and occasional commenter on this blog who sent me a nice card and a cheque for £25. He, for it was a he, said he’d won this on the Premium Bonds and would like to give it to me to split between Wild Justice and the World Land Trust,…
Guest blog – Boris and the Badgers by Dominic Dyer
Dominic Dyer is Policy Advisor for the Born Free Foundation, author of Badgered to Death ‘The People and Politics of the Badger Cull’ and was CEO of the Badger Trust from 2013 to 2020. Twitter: domdyer70 Boris, the badgers and the politics of culling Sir David King undermines the Randomised Badger Culling Trial Over the…
RSPB press release – Art of Saving Species exhibition
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Springwatch’s Gillian Burke has guest-curated a collection of pieces for the Art of Saving Species exhibition which launches online today. There are few people who would claim Monday mornings are their favourite time of the week but with little to look forward to on weekends the gloomy winter dark mornings are even harder to bear….
Sunday book review – A Curious Boy by Richard Fortey
I’m not very familiar with Richard Fortey, not having read any of his previous books nor, as best as I can recall, seen him on TV. So I came to read his book of memoirs uncluttered by preconceptions. This book is about Fortey’s childhood through to young adulthood and about the role of natural history…
Tim Melling – Great White Egret
Tim writes: the 8th October started well for me as almost unbelievably this was the second species of bird I saw thiat morning after Moorhen. Numbers three and four were Little Egret and Jack Snipe. The Great White Egret flew into the Canal Scrape at Spurn at 7:10 that morning. When I started birdwatching Great…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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GWCT seriously strapped for cash – they say
In their recent evasive blog the GWCT say that I once wrote that I ‘was hoping the GWCT might soon be going bust‘. Wrong again, I didn’t write any such thing (have a look) indeed my blog started with the words ‘Wouldn’t it be terrible if the GWCT went bust?’ which has the opposite meaning,…
No Peregrines taken for ‘falconry’ this year – NE say
Last year you may remember that there was a furore over Natural England issuing licences for falconers to take a small number of Wild Peregrine chicks into captivity for captive breeding; See: 16 April: Natural England issues licences to take Peregrines from the wild where this blog broke the news that Natural England had issued…
Received today #500mmyth
I received this by email today. This is just the type of information that I hope it will be possible for individuals to submit to the DEFRA consultation on regulating gamebird releases which is promised (by DEFRA) for Monday. This letter has been edited to remove information that is personal or which would identify the…