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
What did Shania sing?
The RSPB really is in a pickle over its line on bird of prey persecution. Having welcomed the Hen Harrier inaction plan, welcomed the pathetic statement by the Moorland Association and disappointed many (except the Chief Exec of Songbird Survival) with its line on the Hen Harrier breeding season update, more and more people are…
Remarkable
I have it on good authority (though not absolutely cast-iron I would admit) that Defra minister(s) have asked, through the Defra Press Office, that the Natural England Press Office don’t bother to include any links to this blog in media summaries they send to Defra, as ministers won’t read them. That’s not remarkable – but…
43,000
That’s another thousand in the bag and we still aren’t half way in time yet. And it comes only two days after 42,000 was reached. That was a successful over! Thanks everyone! Take a look at the map which you will see is still dominated by rural constituencies, many of them in grouse moor areas:…
Congratulations to Sir Ian Booo!tham
Sir Ian Booo!tham has been awarded the inaugural ‘Outstanding guns’ award by Fieldsports Magazine. This award ‘gives recognition to individuals in the world of game shooting who truly deserve it, for all the right reasons‘ apparently. The award has been invented because ‘the game shooting community must do all that it possibly can to ensure…