A simple domestic scene in the Avery household after a Saturday at the Bird Fair – celebrating with M&S Cava in 100,000 signature mugs (we’re no mugs!)! Sign here to add to the celebrations – ban driven grouse shooting.
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
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhilll (@CartoonRalph)
Signing our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will not help if you believe Reasons 2 and 3, but it will pretty much end the problem if you believe Reason 1.
Just a quick note on the Bird Fair
I’ve been at the Bird Fair all day – I’ve just got home and opened a bottle or two of wine which friends are drinking downstairs. What a great day! Just a quick note of thanks to Simon Lester for coming to the debate on grouse shooting. All credit to him for coming when not…
Ups and downs of signatures
I emailed the House of Commons petitions Committee at 4am this morning (yes that’s right) with some concerns over the frequency with which our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is yoyoing up and down at the moment as bot attacks add signatures and then these are removed later in the day (often quickly). Just…
Tough for Tufty on grouse moors in Scotland
Those who were being taught how to cross the road safely in the 1960s will remember the starring role of Tufty in the Green Cross Code. Back then it was still possible to use a Red Squirrel in a national advertising campaign without most people creasing their brows and asking ‘What’s that? It’s red’. I…