It’s all very quiet isn’t it? Considering how many organisations are falling over themselves to spout their enormous concern about wildlife crime against birds of prey on grouse moors when it comes to providing a solution for the grouse moor managers (poor things!) there is very little discussion of this admission of guilt by a…
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
Environmental consensus on Remain option
The Wildlife Trusts were, as I recall, the first wildlife NGO to support the option of the UK remaining in the EU and that was back in March. And their statement was admirably clear: ‘The Wildlife Trusts believe that our wildlife and habitats will be better off if they continue to benefit from EU environmental…
Looking forward to talking in Oxford
I’m looking forward to talking in the Oxford Festival of Nature next week. I’ll be talking about…guess what?…why we should ban driven grouse shooting and why the residents of Oxford should do some catching up (per capita) with the residents of Cambridge in signing our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Cambridge 110 signatures…
Donations gratefully accepted
Thank you to all who gave generously in response to yesterday’s request for support to enable us to publicise the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Every pound helps! Thank you. Your donation will be spent to publicise the campaign and e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting in the following ways: design, printing and postage…
Poletraps on the Yorkshire Dales grouse moors – caution!
In a blog post that should change the course of the summer, the RSPB reveals a case of three poletraps being placed on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. What the RSPB says: Read it all here, but here’s a summary. Three set pole traps were found on a grouse moor in…