Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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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
Should I say yes?
I get a lot of these – at least one such email a day. If you think I should be saying yes to these unsolicited junkemails then let me know and I could fill this site up with them… Hi Mark, I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been reading some of your content for some…
Today…
Today the Wild Justice challenge of the Welsh general licences is held online in front of His Honour Judge Jarman QC. The great advantages of online attendance of court is that one can shout at the screen, the seats are more comfortable and one can munch biscuits all the time.
Press release – Trees for Life
Scots want beavers moved not shot, new research finds A majority of Scots agree beavers should be moved to new locations in Scotland instead of being killed, according to new research. The findings come as Highland-based rewilding charity Trees for Life seeks to raise £40,000 through a crowdfunding appeal to help protect Scotland’s wild beavers….
State of the UK’s birds
New report reveals declines in UK’s woodland birds New data show long-term declines of woodland bird species Some specialist woodland species have declined dramatically, including willow tit, which has shown the second biggest decline of any widespread UK bird. Numbers of native birds overall are down, with 19 million fewer pairs of breeding birds in…
From World Land Trust
As the chair of trustees, I’m proud of the work that World Land Trust staff and our partners across the world have done in very difficult circumstances this year, and also grateful to our donors for loyal and generous support.
Brighton’s Big Secret
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I found this video fascinating. It’s 20min but it is fascinating and reveals so many natural riches on Brighton’s doorstep. It’s an interesting commentary too. I will return to this.
This week I am mostly…
This week I am mostly: doing things for the World Land Trust doing things for Wild Justice wondering whether our modest plans for seeing family over Christmas will be possible, and sensible. wondering when the Brexit deal will be done – or should that be undone?
Bird/poultry flu another update
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There’s another case of bird/poultry flu in captive birds and poultry announced today: And that site is somewhere under the blue splodge on the Derbyshire, Staffs and Leics border on the map below.
Bird/poultry flu update
And here, after minutes of playing around with maps, are the counties in which there have been records of wild birds with positive H5N8 records (pink) and the rough locations (blue sprayed areas) of outbreaks in captive poultry/birds. I reckon there are more pink-shaded counties to come and quite possibly a lot more blue splodges.