Dear Mr Pursglove You must be pleased that our constituency of Corby, the East Midlands, England, and the UK all voted for a Brexit. Personally, I was gutted by the result. I read your Westminster newsletter with interest and I must commend you on the way that you wrote about the result; very calm, very…
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
That was fun!
I’ve been out for a couple of days with two of my friends: Henry and Chris Packham. We’ve been making films. More on this later – for sure.
North Yorks Police – we’ll let you off.
Many have received the following communication from North Yorks Police after their investigation into the cautioning of a gamekeeper employed on the Mossdale Estate near Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park for an offence involving the setting of poletraps. You wrote to us recently to complain about our decision to caution a man,…
Guest blog – Words from a Young Naturalist by Tiffany Francis
Tiffany is a nature writer, illustrator and conservationist living in the South Downs, Hampshire. She is about to complete her Masters in English at University College London and volunteers for the Hampshire Wildlife Trust and Bat Conservation Trust. Her first book will be published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2018. I have never seen a hen…
Ring Ousels on the moors
This Ring Ousel was recently photographed having been killed by a fenn trap set on a pole over a ditch on Stanhope Moor in Durham. The trap would have been set to catch stoats and weasels but of course it will catch anything that sets it off – this was an unlucky Ring Ousel. Although…