At the Bird Fair, over 11,000 leaflets were taken away for delivery around the country (certainly England and Wales). I’m grateful to those of you who will be walking the streets and delivering these leaflets over the next few weeks – thank you and every signature counts. I met karl (sic) and Dave at the…
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
Compare and contrast
Charles Moore in the Spectator, ‘It would be wearisome (not least because Matt Ridley’s piece last week set it all out so well) to go through how most such accusations about the killing of hen harriers are false, how hen harriers do better on kept moors than on unkept ones…‘ Prof Rhys Green and Brian Etheridge:…
Congratulations to SRSG
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The Scottish Raptor Study Group-led petition for better regulation of gamebird shooting closed at midnight last night at 7216 signatures – but there will be other paper signatures (some from the Bird Fair) that can be added to that total so we are looking at a 7500+ total. Well done! I hope that the Scottish…
You are wonderful – Firm Briefing 3 (update)
Yesterday, I spent most of my time responding to, and filing, emails from you lovely people saying that you had written to your MP. Thank you! Every time I thought I had dealt with the backlog built up over the Bird Fair weekend I looked again and there were some more emails. Thank you again!…
Henry at the Bird Fair
Here are some more images of the world’s favourite Hen Harrier at the Bird Fair fraternising with a whole bunch of suspected eco-zealots. Wildsounds and author Prof Tim Birkhead (review of The Most Perfect Thing here). Thanks to Duncan and team for some great book signings during the Bird Fair. Eco-zealots’ favourite magazine? Here Henry…