In response to the call from the Labour Shadow Minister, Alex Cunningham, to get rid of lead ammunition the Countryside Alliance’s Tim Bonner huffs and puffs in the Huffington Post. In an article wittily called ‘Lead Ammunition – the Facts’ Bonner says very little of note. He says that the issue should be decided on…
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
Guest blog – Spurn developments by John Lawton
Prof Sir John Lawton FRS is a distinguished ecologist and is the chair of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, awarded a CBE in 1997 and knighted in 2005 for his contributions to ecological science. He has been awarded numerous other national and international science prizes. John…
Many reasons for a visit to Martin Mere
I’m looking forward to attending the NorthWest Birdwatching Festival on Saturday when I’m giving a talk. Apart from anything else, I might see some good birds. Martin Mere is always a good place to have a look at Tree Sparrows, maybe a Starling flock whirling around at dusk and all those things that go quack…
Lead ammunition – you choose
There are now two e-petitions on the subject of lead ammunition: one to ban it and one to keep it. Having failed to get Chris Packham sacked from the BBC, Andy Richardson now has put his name to an e-petition to keep lead ammunition. There can’t be many people who would want their name associated…
A sense of place
At the New Networks for Nature event there were lots of good bits. There was a bit where three people talked about Sense or Spirit of Place. One of the speakers was poet Andrew Forster who lives in the Lake District now, but used to live somewhere else, in Scotland. I guess that there were…