Is nature beautiful or is it useful? Should we protect nature for its own sake or for our own sakes? Is nature priceless or can it have a value put on it? The answer to these questions can all be ‘Yes to both’ but we don’t treat the natural world as though we would say…
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
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
What they said about the Natalie Bennett car-crash interviews: this blog Natalie Bennett in the Daily Telegraph Natalie Bennett in the Guardian Zoe Williams in the Guardian Daily Mail The Daily Mirror on car-crash interviews Cartoonist Ralph Underhill has an exhibition of his work in Aberdeen Central library next week as part of Aberdeen Climate…
A round up
Some things that caught my eye this week: £1000 reward for information on injured Buzzard in Yorkshire science and technology committee thinks that EU rules on GM crops are holding us back planet earth is a sick patient says future king Sweden’s racist bird names – do we have any of our own? Or any…
This month’s Birdwatch
I travelled into London yesterday which meant that I could read this month’s Birdwatch (the one with the Crane on the cover). My ‘political birder’ column is about vicarious liability. Usually,I look through the accounts of the rarities in Birdwatch and think to myself a mixture of ‘I’d never have realised what that was’, ‘I wish…
Green belt
An interesting piece by Simon Jenkins in the Daily Telegraph. Does the Green Belt need a re-think? I’m never quite sure where it is or what it is, myself.