Tim writes: These King Penguins were photographed just above the largest nesting colony on the planet with hundreds of thousands of nesting pairs. This was on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia at Saint Andrews Bay. King Penguins are the only birds I have ever encountered that treat humans as if they are birds. …
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
60,000
60,000 is a big number! A really big number. We now need fewer than four lots of 10,000 signatures to reach 100,000 by 20 September. That will be difficult – but not impossible. We are going for it! So far, in July we have passed 13 ‘thousand milestones’. How many more will we pass in…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Guest blog – Time for tidal power by Sian John
Sian John is Tidal Lagoon Power’s (TLP’s) Environment Director and Royal HaskoningDHV’s Director of Environment in the UK. A strong advocate of marine conservation and sustainable development, Sian is currently leading the implementation of TLP’s visionary Ecosystem Enhancement Programme. Hailing originally from NZ, she loves the sea. As a regular contributor to Coastal Futures,…
Rewilding, reforesting, down south
FC England is consulting on the future of its forests in an upland area, in a National Park – did you immediately think of Dartmoor? I bet you didn’t. See here and here for interesting, conservation-oriented takes on the proposals and the links that will allow you to express a view – by 19 July….