…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…
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
These children want to grow up to see Hen Harriers (1)
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Benjamin Bishop is pretty clear that he would like us all to Save the Hen Harrier! This is the first of a couple of poster designs by children from the Wollaton Park Wildlife Watch group, whose leader Helen Mitchem, was present at, and inspired by, Hen Harrier Day in the Goyt Valley. Benjamin is too…
Lead – wildlife impacts
Some of us have been saying this for year, but now the findings of the Lead Ammunition group are published, it is clear that the unnecessary use of lead ammunition kills, through poisoning, very large numbers of birds each year – not through hunting but through poisoning. A quote from the findings of the Lead…
The findings of the Lead Ammunition Group
The report of the Lead Ammunition Group was submitted to Ministers on 3 June this year after more than five years of quite hard work by a group of varying expertise and scientific ability. Defra has decided to put the report out to peer review to have it checked one more time and the final…
Poached
Yesterday evening I went to an International Film Premiere which was strange in itself. But I knew about half a dozen people who appeared in the film and about half of the people in the audience! Weird! The film is called Poached and it’s about egg-collecting or egg-stealing – Poached! Geddit?! It’s a film about…