On Friday I had a lovely evening speaking in Cambridgeshire, on Saturday I spoke at the excellent BAWC conference in Buxton, then yesterday it was Durham (where I heard a great talk from Geirge Monbiot) and tomorrow evening I’ll be in Devizes. I’m looking forward to speaking about Passenger Pigeons (though Hen Harriers are…
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
Minister misleads
I was talking to a former, very distinguished, colleague yesterday about the environmental question time event the week before last, and how Rupert (Lord) de Mauley was so slippery and smooth that nobody could get hold of him. He was like a Turkish wrestler covered in olive oil. But his statement, which I have now…
One week to go
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Yesterday, our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 22,000 signatures. Thank you everyone! A week tomorrow we will know the final total (I’d guess 22,189) but we already know that in 10 months this e-petition has got into the top 0.5% of most-signed e-petitions on the Westminster government website. Thank you again! We are…
Rules replies
This is the quite astounding response from Rules restaurant to my email which I shared with you this morning: Dear Dr Avery Thank you for your e-mail. Rules does not obtain any of it’s (sic) Game from the Lartington Estate. Any further enquiries regarding Game should be placed in the hands of The Game &…
What are the Rules?
Last autumn I visited Rules restaurant in London with a couple of friends on a reconnaissance mission. The visit is briefly described in Inglorious: conflict in the uplands. Rules is London’s oldest restaurant and has a lot of game on its menu. On the day that we visited we could have had grouse but none…