Our rather successful e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting runs until midnight (I think) on 20 September. Every signature is valuable in showing MPs and the world that this is an issue that requires urgent attention. I’d be very pleased if the total approached 125,000 at the end – there will be another significant milestone…
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
Firm Briefing 8 – some tips and requests
‘Firm Briefing’ is what we are giving our MPs in the run-up to the expected debate on the future of driven grouse shooting in the Westminster parliament at a date to be determined (but likely to be October or November). Our aim is to get a good and truthful debate on the future of driven…
Sunday book review – Britain’s Birds by Rob Hume et al.
This book is very good. Why would you need another bird identification guide or field guide? Because this one is very good! This is a quite straight forward bird identification guide – there isn’t much mucking about with other information – and that’s good. It covers birds you might see in Britain and Ireland –…
Tim Melling – Bottle-nosed Dolphins
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Tim writes: these Bottlenosed Dolphins were playing in the wake alongside our boat and stayed with us for several minutes. Their leaps out of the water become predictable giving chance to focus on the right part of the sea and click the shutter at just the right moment. This was taken on the Pacific coast…
118,000 signatures, three weeks to go and Firm Briefing 7
Our e-petition is still moving briskly along – this will partly be thanks to the impact of last week’s Bird Fair. Some will have heard about the e-petition for the first time at the Bird Fair (that may be difficult for some of you to believe but it’s certainly true) and also 11,000 leaflets were…