I spent Thursday evening, Friday and Saturday morning with a disparate bunch of supporters and opponents to banning driven grouse shooting at the Sheffield conference on raptors, peatlands and the uplands. It was valuable in all sorts of ways, not least in meeting some blog readers and supporters whom I rarely see (for some of…
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
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Thank you for your entries to this blog’s writing competition. Entries closed at midnight last night and the last entry got in under the wire with 10 minutes to go. You submitted 47 entries (from 43 people). These were in four categories of ‘wildlife and the arts’ (8 entries), ‘wildlife and politics’ (19 entries), ‘international’…
Sunday book review – Autumn by Melissa Harrison (ed)
I’ve reviewed Spring and Summer here, and liked them, so it won’t be a surprise that I enjoyed Autumn too. The book follows the same model as the earlier two seasons – an anthology of writings from famous writers mixed in with offerings from current writers. It’s still a good model and worked as well…
Driven grouse shooting – your money.
Your taxes help to pay for driven grouse shooting Please sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
Tim Melling – Kittlitz’s Murrelet
Tim writes: Kittlitz’s Murrelet is one of the least-known auk species on the planet being only found off Alaska and Eastern Siberia and is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. This means there is an extremely high risk this species will become extinct in the wild. Numbers are declining at a startling rate throughout…