The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) has released its position on the UK’s membership of the EU (see here). CIEEM asked its members for their views on matters relating to the UK’s membership of the EU and the potential impacts of leaving on the natural environment and the sector. The results of…
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
How social?
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If you all turn to p273 of your copies of Inglorious then you will find an exhortation from me to use social media in our campaign to ban driven grouse shooting. Written in January 2015 it lists the Twitter followers of the following organisations and individuals. Here are what they were then and what they…
Thunderclap at 5pm – please sign up
The thunderclap organised by Stewart Abbott, who is also organising the Peak District Hen Harrier Day event, is being broadcast at 5pm today. If you have a Twitter, Facebook or tumblr account then please sign up to it (I wonder how many readers of this blog are on tumblr?). I wonder whether that will deliver…
Microbeads
Tomorrow is World Oceans Day – why not sign this e-petition promoted by Greenpeace, the Marine Conservation Society, FFI and EIA.
Worth waiting for
This is a press release from the Yorkshire Dales NP in response (a slightly slow response) to the pole trap incident of last week. A bit late thought it may be, it is well worth reading. Birds of prey traps condemned by National Park Authority Grassington, June 7, 2016. Illegal persecution of birds of…