I spent four days abroad last week – birdwatching, drinking red wine, eating oysters and having a great time with friends. Where might I have been? Here are a series of teasing clues, I hope, to get you thinking. More clues at 1300, 1400, 1500 and 1600 and then the answer at 1800. Clue 1:…
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
25,000 signatures to ban driven grouse shooting!
You are all amazing – thank you for such support for this e-petition to create a better future for our uplands and their wildlife and people. 25,000 signatures in less than four weeks – how amazing is that? On the very first of these e-petitions we reached 22,399 signatures in over 10 months. I thought…
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19,000, 20,000 and 21,000
Yesterday our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 19,000 signatures: today, so far, it passed 20,000 and 21,000 signatures. As I write it is the top trending e-petition on the parliament website and has amassed 1100 signatures in the last hour. Thank you to LACS for an email to their supporters (which include me!)….
Most Scots want a ban on driven grouse shooting
In a remarkable YouGov poll (carried out in mid-March) a majority of Scots indicated that they wish driven grouse shooting to be banned. A majority of Scots voters (52%) oppose driven grouse shooting compared with a mere 19% who support it. Opposition to driven grouse shooting is not a class issue but the opponents of…