Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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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
Two sad losses
This week two of my former colleagues at the RSPB have passed away: Roy Taylor and John Lanchbery. They were both wonderful colleagues full of knowledge and good humour. They probably didn’t have huge amounts in common apart from their dedication to the environmental cause and their expertise and commitment to it. Roy Tayler. Photo:…
Putting two and two and one together in one small corner of the Bowland Fells
The locations of five Hen Harriers whose satellite tags have mysteriously ceased to transmit in and adjacent to an SPA set up to protect Hen Harriers: SD596621 tag id 94591 tagged by NE 23 June 2010, ceased transmitting 18 Aug 2010 SD617605 ‘Hope’ tagged by RSPB summer 2014, ceased transmitting 13 September 2014 SD624632 Thor…
YFTB are back!
Photo: At a meeting of trade unions (1996) by Ion Chibzii from Chisinau, Moldova. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons You Forgot the Birds is back with a new website with new errors and they have sponsored (does that simply mean bought?) a ‘story’ on the Guido Fawkes website. There is nothing new…
Thor thunders no more
RSPB press relase. Hen Harrier chick Thor – now ‘disappeared’. Photo: Steve Downing First Bowland hen harrier chick in three years vanishes without trace Thor was one of 13 chicks to fledge from Bowland, Lancashire for the first time in three years. The rare chick is the latest in a number of hen harriers to…
#justice4henharriers
As I’ve said before, my work for our upcoming court case (save the date 5 and 6 December in the Royal Courts of Justice) comes in pulses. I am now in a pulse where I am reading drafts and preparing a witness statement. Our legal team at LeighDay are very clever and a delight to…
#peoplesmanifestoforwildlife – what Conservative MPs are saying
Conservative MPs are obviously important players in what happens to the environment and wildlife. The Conservative Party is the largest single party in the Westminster parliament and forms the government, albeit with the flagging support of the DUP. Conservative MPs can, if they so choose, influence what Michael Gove does – for good or ill….
MPs who have responded to the #peoplesmanifestoforwildlife
Thank you if you have already written to your MP about the Manifesto for Wildlife. If you haven’t got around to it yet then do please give it a go – here is some information and advice. Here are MPs from whom you have told me that you have had substantive replies (I’m sure there…
Big Match fortnight ends midnight
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This Jaguar is looking at you for help. The Big Match fortnight ends at midnight tonight – any money you donate before then will be matched and therefore doubled. So now is, please, the time to donate to this project to protect Jaguar habitats and all the life that depends on it in northern Belize….
Jungle for Jaguars
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Andrew Langley’s fantastic fund-raising deal of a quadrupling of all donations has very, very nearly reached his target of £5000 – he’s just £70 short. And that means he is just £280 short of raising £20,000 for the World Land Trust’s Jungle for Jaguars appeal. I’m sure he’ll get that £70 very soon. The Big…