At lunchtime today our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will have been running for a month – and will have five months to go. We are only 20% of the way through and we are approaching 30,000 signatures (29,870 this morning). Fantastic! Thank you to everyone who has signed, shared and helped. The ‘100…
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
Your Police and Crime Commissioner
If you live in England or Wales, outside of London, then on 5 May you can vote for your Police and Crime Commissioner. Do you know who your candidates are? Do you know what they think about wildlife crime? No, nor me! But there is still just time to find out. I’ll try to provide…
Ministers do sign off responses to e-petitions
Defra Press Office has been kind enough to come back to me and confirm that government ministers do, as one would expect, sign off departmental responses to e-petitions. So this one (and see here too), this one, this one and this one, were all signed off by a minister at the time. I’m looking forward,…
Bit of a round up
I’ll be at Housmans bookshop this evening at 7pm Fineshade Wood features in this week’s Private Eye the NFU voted to be pro Remain in the EU referendum the Defra Press Office has not got back to me with an answer on whether ministers sign off responses to e-petitions my MP has not yet got…
Looking forward to be at Housmans tomorrow evening
Housmans Bookshop describes itself as London’s premier radical bookshop and so I’m expecting to feel at home when I talk there tomorrow evening about why we should ban driven grouse shooting. 7pm, 5 Caledonian Road and entrance is £3 (redeemable against any purchases). And maybe we’ll get some new signatures on our e-petition to ban…