I am grateful to my MP, Tom Pursglove, for a rapid response to my letter and for contacting Liz Truss at Defra on my behalf. I’ll be interested to see what she comes up with. I suspect there will be no reply until Defra has got around to responding to the e-petition on banning driven…
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
Thank you from Chris Packham
Chris Packham has released a short video to thank the people who have supported him after the Countryside Alliance demanded that the BBC should sack him. It’s worth a look – it’s only a bit over six minutes long. As well as thanking the 70,000+ people who signed an e-petition to support him, Chris asks…
A friendly challenge to Martin Spray (WWT) and Mike Clarke (RSPB)
(This blog is long!) Dear Martin and Mike Your two organisations deserve huge credit for the role that they have played in getting us to a position where the prospect of lead ammunition being banned, on human health, animal welfare and nature conservation grounds is very high. This has taken years, and consumed years and…
Oscar Dewhurst – Hobby
Oscar writes: This was taken from outside the Bittern hide at Minsmere during the spring. On warm days the Hobbies would hunt over the reed bed for most of the day, delighting visitors with their antics. I spent several hours in there trying to photograph them as they hurtled past the hide at lightning speed!…
Is it moving?
Andy Richardson’s e-petition asking the BBC to sack Chris Packham may have died. It certainly is difficult to discern signs of life. It’s stuck on c2,500 signatures, just as it was yesterday and the day before. Whereas, whoever posted the e-petition asking the BBC not to sack Chris must be pleased that it is into…