In March, of course I was struck by the fact that LACS supported our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting but I didn’t have any spare dosh to give them after giving over £150 to the BirdLife appeal, linked to Champions of the Flyway, to support work by the Hellenic Ornithological Society to combat illegal…
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
Guest blog – #Think500YearsAhead by Findlay Wilde
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein The EU referendum is set to take place on 23rd June. It is a chance to have a say in whether we stay in Europe or not. This decision will have an…
What nature does for Britain – quotes
I reviewed Tony Juniper’s book on ecosystem services quite a while back, but after a tweet from him yesterday supporting the questions I posed to Countryfile, I went back and checked what Tony had written about grouse moors. Page 102: ‘We’ll always be able to treat the water, it’s just that it’s very expensive’ [A…
See you at Rainham Marshes on 6 August
RSPB will be hosting a Hen Harrier Day event at their Rainham Marshes nature reserve on Saturday 6 August (time TBC) organised by Birders Against Wildlife Crime and Mark Avery. Chris Packham will be speaking. Check back on the BAWC Hen Harrier Day website for more details from mid-May and on social media #HHDay2016. The…
Please could Northumberland National Park…
Please could Northumberland National Park name, or at least give a reference, for the 20% of Britain’s spiders that will disappear if upland heather burning were to cease. I’m pretty sure that the one above isn’t one of them. But I was wondering, surely the lowlands are the place for spiders anyway – like they…