I have spent almost 40 years working in engineering. My main interest away from work is monitoring and photographing red kites, these two go hand in hand and I often gain information from photographs that was missed in the field. I often go home to review my day and the photographs often identify birds, they…
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
28000+
28,000 signatures and we are still in the first month. Hmmm! Pretty good. Very encouraging indeed. The 10 most productive constituencies at the moment are as follows: Calder Valley 165 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON Ross, Skye, Lochaber 149 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 129 signatures…
Dear Minister
Dear Minister You ought to be thinking of replying to our latest e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting – we have now been waiting for over three weeks for a response. In that period, though, the e-petition has gained another 17,000+ signatures. You should be aware that the campaign to end driven…
Are farmers bonkers?
Tomorrow we will find out whether farmers, in the shape of the NFU, are completely bonkers? As has been rehearsed here already, some Brexiteers, including my MP, seem to think that we would continue to pay farmers lots of money just because we are in thrall to them, if we left the EU. This scenario…
Sunday book review – Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
If you are expecting a book of rather sweet wildlife tales from your favourite TV personality then this book may not be for you. This is a brave and powerful book. It’s brave because it is a self-portrait of a rather weird kid – not good with people and not a bundle of laughs, it…