It may be, though it seems unlikely, that the gene for being a Chief Executive also removes your interest in social media. Prompted by the arrival of the CEO of Wildlife and Countryside link on Twitter, @ElaineWCL, I thought I’d just run through the other CEOs of wildlife conservation organisations who are on Twitter (and…
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
Client Earth – exhausted but victorious?
I suppose that it is just possible that a UK run by Nigel Farage or Gideon Osborne might care more about its citizens and set even lower targets for nitrogen dioxide than those set by the straight-banana people in Brussels – it’s possible but very unlikely. A UK spokesman said ‘Killing our citizens has been…
Grocer Gold and Green?
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Very glad to see that my local Leaf farmer, Duncan Farrington (as featured in Chapter 8 of A Message from Martha) has been short-listed in the Grocer Gold Awards 2015. Duncan is a modern farmer – entrepreneurial, green and hard-working. It will soon be time for me to see whether he still has perhaps the…
Henry at Snilesworth
So, we went to Snilesworth – and it was a sunny early morning. Henry got a bit distracted here because he started chasing Meadow Pipits and saying that there were lots of voles around. It looked a good place to nest. But there weren’t any ringtails here for him. And he asked what the…
Thirsk and Malton constituency
This blog has mentioned before the deselection of the feisty Conservative MP, and chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Anne Macintosh. Now I don’t agree with Ms MacIntosh about everything, and obviously I have no knowledge of the ins and outs, ups and downs, of her relationship with her constituency party, but…