It’s quite fun reading the reviews of Inglorious on Amazon. Now there are 22 of them and they average at 4 stars out of 5 stars. That’s pretty good. But I can’t help noticing that if you only look at the reviews that are from verified purchasers of Inglorious (eight of them) – then they…
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
#justiceforannie thunderclap
‘Annie‘ was a female Hen Harrier which was found shot on a grouse moor in Scotland. She has become the symbol for attracting people to sign up to a social media thunderclap tagged as #justiceforannie. This was the idea of the Moving Mountains Nature Network (@MMNNActionUK) and it will send out a message about our…
A rather fluffy gauntlet – the report
The Response for Nature report by 26 wildlife organisations in England is unexceptionable and unexceptional. There is nothing wrong with it and nothing very new or exciting either. It is the semolina of wildlife reports – you couldn’t really dislike it but I’d be surprised if it’s your favourite. In fact it’s a bit gruel-like…
A rather fluffy gauntlet – the event
Last Tuesday a bunch of NGOs launched their ‘Response for Nature’ report (or reports actually – one for each UK nation) at an event in London. I’ll comment on the reports later today but the event was a room full of wildlife conservation organisation staff talking to themselves. There were speeches: from Steve Backshall, Josie…
Sunday book review – Natural Histories by Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss
This is the book of the radio programme. Have a look at that cover – very clever! And quite pretty, too. I’m almost totally addicted to Radio 4 and so I have heard bits of several of the radio programmes that make up the subject matter of this book. The basic idea is that each…