Few Red Grouse were shot in the UK this year, mainly because of disease and bad weather. But regardless of grouse bags, this was a very bad year for driven grouse shooting and hastened the end of this worthless hobby. The case against driven grouse shooting is that it depends on intensive management that involves…
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
Oscar Dewhurst – Grizzly Bear
Oscar writes: This is the mother grizzly bear that I mentioned in my last photo (grizzly bear 610 for those interested!). Having realised that we weren’t going to see them from the dirt road we’d taken we moved on down the road. It soon became apparent that we hadn’t seen the last of them though,…
The best (?) of Oscar Dewhurst’s 2015 images
Thank you to Oscar for all his images this year – and a new one will appear at 6pm today.
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A Happy Christmas to all our Readers!
2015 in the Birdwatch readers’ Blog of the year 2015 – July-Dec
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This is the review of the second half of 2015 through the writings of this blog (for Jan-June) – click here for first half of year. July: The Committee on Climate Change criticise the intensive management of grouse moors because of carbon emissions (see here and here). NGOs across the EU rally together to defend…