You only have today to respond to the very important consultation on the future of the EU Nature Directives. There have been 470,000 responses online – a record for this type of EU consultation (94,000 from the UK – who says we aren’t good Europeans?!). You will have a local nature site which is protected…
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
Henry at Millden
Henry at Millden. ‘So these are the Angus glens?’ says Henry.
Have you?
You have today and tomorrow to respond to the very important consultation on the future of the EU Nature Directives. There have been 445,000 responses online – a record for this type of EU consultation. You will have a local nature site which is protected by these directives and it would be good to send…
Henry with friends in Scotland
A likely looking bunch! I was wondering how plans for Hen Harrier Day were progressing north of Hadrian’s wall and so it’s really good to see that the Tayside Raptor Study Group and the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (remember them?) is planning a Hen Harrier Day event at Loch Turret Reservoir near Crieff. Good for them!…
Stranger danger and young naturalists?
Mark Cocker’s interview in Behind the Binoculars prompted this discussion with Lucy MacRobert on this morning’s Today Programme (2h 53m into the programme). Good thoughts (not sure how I missed it myself!). But Mark and all the other interviewees said many more things too!