Thank you all for your support for the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting! There have been c1000 signatures in the last 48 hours. Please keep tweeting on Twitter and sharing on Facebook. Just the rest of today, Tuesday, Wednesday and all of Thursday to go! Then we can all have a rest – for…
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
Looking forward to talking!
I have a few gigs on over the next couple of weeks; On Wednesday (20 Jan) I am talking to what will probably be mostly a bunch of undergraduates in Cambridge – the Cambridge Nature Society – in the new David Attenborough Building, Room 1.25 A+B at 7pm (about life in general and driven grouse…
You Forgot the Birds
Do you remember You Forgot the Birds? I bet some of you do – they spent quite a lot of time, and I expect money too, attacking the RSPB for its … well, actually it was difficult to tell exactly what it was getting at. The YFTB campaign looked to many of us like an…
Oscar Dewhurst – Little Egret
Oscar writes: Early April last year saw me in Suffolk hoping to photograph Bitterns. Unfortunately I had no luck with them and they stayed very elusive for the duration of my stay. Luckily this Little Egret was a lot more cooperative, spending a lot of time feeding in the new green reeds in front of…
31,000 signatures!
Thank you! Please keep tweeting on Twitter and sharing on Facebook. The Ban Driven Grouse Shooting Facebook page is clearly helping to boost signatures in these last few days. Just today, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and at least part of Thursday to go! If you had a guess at how many signatures our e-petition to ban…