Your comments on this blog are great! I can never be quite sure which blogs will stimulate most comment although, by now, I have a fairly good idea – but I am sometimes surprised by you. There are quite a few people who regularly comment here who give this blog part of its character. Here…
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
Ralph Underhill cartoon – without a murmur
This week has seen the publication of the latest State of the UK’s Birds report by a whole bunch of UK conservation organisations. The media coverage (here, here, here) highlighted the fact that 44 million birds have disappeared from our lives since 1966. But this loss passed by without much of a murmur, let alone…
Guest blog – A natural history GCSE? by Mary Colwell
Mary Colwell is an award winning radio, TV and internet producer winning 14 awards over the last 5 years, including a Sony Gold in 2009. She is also a radio presenter and feature writer for The Tablet. She now produces Saving Species on Radio 4 which covers a wide range of environmental and wildlife issues….
Guest Blog – RSPB science by David Gibbons
Dr David Gibbons is the RSPB’s Head of Conservation Science, a post he has been privileged to hold for the last 14 years. The previous incumbent in this post was a well-known environmental blogger, not a million miles from this site. Mark’s blog last week, comparing the quantity and quality of the scientific output…
In a days – I mean a daze.
Sunday’s was the 600th Standing up for Nature blog since I started writing them 571 days ago. The day passed almost without me noticing the landmark. In those 571 days this blog has grown from an audience of zero to well over 7000 unique visitors a month according to the statistics provided by Google analytics….