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

Fineshade Wood should be an SSSI

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When they came into being, all those years ago, SSSIs were selected as representative examples of wildlife-rich habitats.  There was no expectation that every qualifying site would be protected. Roll the clock on a few decades, and we can see that the SSSI notification has been very important in protecting our wildlife – hundreds of…

Oscar Dewhurst – Grizzly Bears

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Oscar writes: This is the same bear that has been in a previous image, but was taken slightly before that one. We had stopped the car at a spot called Oxbow Bend, from where you can look out onto the Snake River. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a head just above…

That’s another eagle down then

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It’s not an accident that a newspaper calling itself The Independent – and wanting to be forceful and influential – would have an eagle as its logo. So, that’s another dead eagle then. The Independent has been a pretty good newspaper over the years and it has also been a leading newspaper on environmental matters….