The Natural England Press Office say that their Chief Executive will respond individually to emails he receives on the subject of armed men with model Hen Harriers in the Peak District. That’s James Cross, Chief Executive, Natural England: [email protected]
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
Peak District – what they say
This post starts with a simple round-up of who has said what since the breaking of the faking it blogpost on the Raptor Persecution UK (yes really!) website on Tuesday but ends with a challenge. Later today I will blog on the importance of the Peak District in the future of driven grouse shooting and…
Some of us get to vote a week today
If you live in England and Wales, but not in London or Greater Manchester, you will have the chance to vote for your police and crime commissioner a week today. P&CCs are charged with ensuring effective and efficient policing of a police area. Wildlife crime is part of that role – certainly not the most…
A comment from a regular
This comment was posted earlier today on this blog by ‘jbc’. It’s so well written that it deserves a wider airing. Thank you all for your comments – they help make this blog what it is – whatever it is! I don’t work for an NGO now and have never worked for RSPB –…
Rude message from David Parks on Facebook
I get some of this. This was posted as a message on my Facebook page yesterday night, posted just before midnight, I see. ‘what a fckn blinkered idiot you are…! you and the like of Packham……………….you will never defeat shooting,insignificant idiots……………‘ It’s always nice to know that people care. The person who sent me this…