How are you getting on with whatever New Year resolutions you made? I went for a walk at Stanwick Lakes this morning and was rewarded with 53 species, the ‘best’ of which was a Bittern. I also had what seems, at the moment, to be a good idea. Today is a meat-free day for me…
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
27,000! And an offer
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 27,000 signatures yesterday evening. It has accrued 2000 signatures in the last month or so which is pretty good going. The e-petition closes on 21 January (I’m not sure what time on that day!) and so we are entering the finishing straight. This is pretty good going,…
Implausible deniability
This time last year I was finishing writing Inglorious. As I wrote it, it became clearer to me that the game really was already up for driven grouse shooting – it was on its last legs but it might keep stumbling along for a decade or more because of the power of the vested interests…
Oscar Dewhurst – Moose
Oscar writes: I took this on the same morning as the previous two images ((Otter, Grizzly Bear) it was a pretty good morning!), and in fact just half an hour after we’d seen the bears. Driving back for lunch we saw car that was pulled over on the side of the road. This is often…
Floods and land use
Although dominated by talk of whether the flood defences were expensive enough, high enough, built quickly enough or in the right places, there has been more discussion than usual about the role of land use and flooding in the media and on this blog. In case you missed them, here is a list of…