Bill is one of the strong supporters of this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting that passed 78,000 signatures a little while ago today (having passed 77,000 signatures this morning). Please sign to make an old Goodie very happy.
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
Dear Amanda
‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else. That is why we need this brood management plan’ – Amanda Anderson, Director, Moorland Association Dear Amanda Could you please give the following police forces a list of your members who are not ‘letting’ Hen Harriers onto their moors: Cleveland Police…
#HHDay2016 at Edale – a few words and images
In many ways, I thought that this was the very best Hen Harrier Day event ever. But the very first with the #sodden570 must just edge it for those who were there. Back in the Peak District two years later, after another successful rally in 2015 in the Goyt Valley, we gathered in a car…
Hen Harrier Day Rainham 2016 – the video and some images
And here are a load more images and words from the RSPB team at Rainham Marshes. Thanks all for a great day! Most of these photos thanks to Guy Shorrock.
Elsewhere in the media: Moorland Association admits criminality?
In a slightly bizarre piece by Jonathan Leake in Yesterday’s Sunday Times the Moorland Association’s Amanda Anderson, last seen at the back of the crowd at the Hen Harrier Day event at Edale, was quoted as follows, ‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else. That is why we need…