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

Talking

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Over the last couple of weeks or so I’ve given four talks; to biology sixth formers at a local school, to an RSPB members’ group in Hertfordshire, to a rewilding group in Bristol and to university students in Northampton. All have been fun to do and all have been different. I say that they all…

RSPB press release

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A rare, protected bird of prey has been illegally poisoned near Drumconrath in County Meath, Ireland. Mary hatched in the summer of 2019 from a nest on the Isle of Man. Before she left her nest, she was fitted with a lightweight satellite tracking device as part of the EU Hen Harrier LIFE project, allowing…

Joke response to new gull licensing regime from Moorland Association

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Following their joke response to the Committee on Climate Change’s report on land use the Moorland Association has issued another joke response today – this time to the new licensing regime of lethal control of gulls from Natural England. Even the thickest of journalists surely won’t quote the Moorland Association’s contention that their members, notably…