There is nothing but stubbornness stopping M&S from dumping grouse meat. They have dumped it in the previous two years – once for a good reason and once for a bad reason. Last year, they just used what looked like an excuse but in 2014 they said they wouldn’t sell grouse meat until they received…
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
A place for trolls
If you want to put forward a point of view on grouse shooting then you are very welcome to comment on this blog – where your comment won’t be deleted and won’t be selectively quoted. If you want an argument with me about grouse shooting then come here and try your luck. Yesterday evening a…
Guest blog – What is Britain’s Native Wildlife? by John Burton
John Burton is one of the most experienced and free-thinking of British conservationists. He was a founder and the first chief executive of the World Land Trust. He stood down from that position recently but will still be working hard for WLT into the future. Defining Britain’s native wildlife is complex….
61,000
There’s another 1000 signatures! We have momentum! Over five weeks ago I wrote, with the help of Shania Twain, a blog that stated: ‘The RSPB … now faces the situation where well over 40,000 people support a policy position that the RSPB does not support and that figure is certain to pass 50,000, likely to…
M&S – signs of cracking?
There was a piece in yesterday’s Sunday Herald where Rob Edwards asked M&S whether they would answer any of the questions that we have been asking them – and they wouldn’t. M&S are getting it so, so, so wrong. If you started believing that they couldn’t be doing anything wrong in selling grouse meat you…