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

What nonsense from Defra

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‘Bovine TB eradication strategy delivering results‘ was the headline of a press release issued by Defra on Thursday last week. Defra went on ‘The comprehensive strategy to eradicate bovine TB in England is delivering results with more than half the country on track to be officially free of the disease by the end of this…

Oscar Dewhurst – Otter

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Oscar writes: While I was in America we spent 5 days in Grand Teton National Park. On out penultimate morning, while looking out from Oxbow Bend, I spotted a mother grizzly and her two cubs swimming across the lake. I got a few photos of them with the trees behind, and they then passed into…

Nice weather for bats – or is it?

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November was very warm on our planet – 0.97°C above the twentieth century average and the warmest November on record. In the UK the highest night-time temperature record was broken and it looks like we might be heading towards a record December too.  A couple of nights ago the lowest recorded night-time temperatutre across recording…

British Wildlife – December edition

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I look forward to British Wildlife dropping through the letterbox every couple of months. The December issue is well-timed to be well-read over the Christmas break. Peter Marren writes about the threat to the NHM garden (you read it here first?) and I write about the twelve days of Christmas. There is a letter from…