Even the Daily Telegraph (from yesterday) finds something funny about driven grouse shooting. At least, the incomparable Alex does. Please sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – last chance is today!
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
Last chance to sign
Our winning e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has its last day today! You won’t be able to sign the e-petition after midnight tonight (although you will be able to click on the confirmation email that you are sent when you do sign). A late flurry of extra signatures would be nice, and for neatness…
Compare and contrast
The shooting industry (BASC this time): Heather burning good for biodiversity says study. A consortium of 50+ environmental and wildlife NGOs in the State of Nature report (p26): ‘In large areas, uplands are also subject to burning rotations as part of grouse moor management. This can result in heather dominating blanket bogs and has greatly…
State of Nature – BII
The UK is ‘one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth’ was one of the headlines that the media took away from the State of Nature report. This sounded new and worrying to me, although entirely believable, so I was interested to see the evidence on which it is based. You’ll find that on pp…
Landowners win 8-year battle to save Catfield Fen
The Catfield Fen Public Inquiry report is a comprehensive and overwhelming victory for the owners of Catfield Fen (Mr and Mrs Tim Harris) in their battle to save their fen from the impacts of water abstraction by local farmers. In it the inspector finds that: there is clear evidence that the Fen is in danger…