Duncan Thomas works for BASC – he is their North of England Director. His Twitter handle is @DuncanBASC. Mr Thomas will, I understand, be on Countryfile this evening talking about grouse shooting. Over the last year and a bit Mr Thomas has shown a rather persistent interest in my finances (nothing to see here!). In…
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
Petitions
There have been 20,500+ petitions submitted during this parliament. 13,700 of them were rejected – we weren’t. Of the 6,800 or so not rejected – only 293 have passed the 10,000 signature barrier (we’ve done that twice – in this parliament). Of the 6,800 or so not rejected, only 47 have reached 100,000 signatures…
League Against Cruel Sports press release
Parliamentary debate expected as surge in petition signatures to ban driven grouse shooting reaches magic 100,000 Support for a total ban on driven grouse shooting has rocketed with a key petition achieving the 100,000 signatures needed to trigger a debate in Parliament. As the grouse shooting season opens, support for the e-petition – set up…
Tim Melling – Pied Flycatcher
Tim writes: my sister moved to Snowdonia last year and invited me across to stay. I was surprised and delighted to find she had both Pied Flycatchers and Redstarts as garden birds. The Pied Flycatchers were particularly showy and there was lots of light too as the leaves had not yet opened to block the…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill