In case you missed it, do read this very sensible response from RSPB Chief Exec Mike Clarke, to calls from the Countryside Alliance for Chris Packham to be sacked from the BBC. Despite Chris’s thoughtful and fairly mild criticism of the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts, Hawk and Owl Trust and National Trust (yep – pretty much…
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
M&S – good decision (badly worded)
M&S decided last year not to sell grouse because it could not be assured of the sustainability of its sources of game meat. This year, M&S found an excuse to continue that position because it was a poor year for grouse supplies. With the findings of the Lead Ammunition Group now published it would be…
Lead and gamekeepers and their families
Another quote from the findings of the Lead Ammunition Group: Lead shot and bullet fragments can be present in game meat at levels sufficient to cause significant health risks to children and adult consumers, depending on the amount of game they consume. Almost certainly some 10,000 children are growing up in households where they…
Are you going to continue to sell game with high lead levels?
This blog has documented the fact that several famous London restaurants sell game, have been informed of the health risks of high lead levels, and have been inactive and in some cases hostile to the idea of addressing these issues: Rules restaurant – What are the Rules? 23 March 2015, Rules replies 23 March 2015,…
63 years and 7 months on the throne
…and despite the Protection of Birds Act being enacted in 1954, Hen Harriers are still bumped off in the hills of our realm. Henry wishes Her Majesty all the best on this special day and is sure that she wishes him every good health too. Henry isn’t even 7 months old yet – I wonder…