I’m quite often asked whether I really want a ban on driven grouse shooting – I do! And then I’m sometimes told that ‘It’ll never happen’ and I say ‘It will’. This is why. Let’s start with the very obvious, but rarely stated, fact that driven grouse shooting is not essential. We don’t need it….
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
Hen Harrier Day thunderclap
The message went out 5.7 million times just after 10am on Sunday, ‘We’re missing our hen harriers – we want them back!‘ This was too controversial a message to gather the support of Defra (the government department responsible for nature conservation and restoring the status of the Hen Harrier in England), Natural England (the English…
Hen Harrier Day 2015 – (3)
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Hen Harrier Day 2015 (2)
Chris Packham was an absolute star on Hen Harrier Eve and at the rally in the Goyt Valley. This is a man who cares passionately about wildlife and is using his public position to promote a better deal for wildlife. He is an inspiring man. I don’t agree with Chris about everything (which means that…
Hen Harrier Day 2015 (1)
I was in the Goyt Valley on Sunday morning with, I guess, 4-500 other folk. Did anyone count? There were certainly fewer than last year in the Derwent Valley – but it’s still a big crowd. And everyone was very welcome. This was us… Meanwhile, down south, at the RSPB reserve at Arne, 130 people…