The following is a lightly edited version of an email I recently received from someone whose identity I know, and who I know to be a NE employee. Understandably their identity is not revealed here. The editing I have done is mostly to remove clues as to their identity. I work for NE. I’m writing…
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
Press release – Orkney stoats
Ground-breaking project gets green light Major project to safeguard Orkney’s internationally important native wildlife wins National Lottery and LIFE support An ambitious project to safeguard Orkney’s world-renowned and internationally important native wildlife has been given the go ahead after receiving support from the National Lottery and the EU’s LIFE programme, it was announced today. The…
from Mr Carbo
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How to please an author
Occasionally, and obviously out of the blue, I get an email a bit like this. Just finished Inglorious. Thank you so much for writing this book. I am ‘relatively’ knowledgeable I feel about land use issues, but I learnt so much from you. I was rudely awakened as to the realities of the driven grouse…
Guest blog – Natural History GCSE (2) 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. Mary has written three previous guest blogs here (A Natural History GCSE, 23 November 2012; Shared Planet, 15…
What your MP says about the Manifesto for Wildlife
About a month ago a group of independent experts , under the leadership of Chris Packham, published a People’s Manifesto for Wildlife. Many of us have written to our MPs asking thenm for their views (not for a party politrical broadcast in favour of the current government) and those responses are slowly coming home to…
Hedgehog highways motor on!
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Hugh Warwick’s e-petition in favour of Hedgehog Highways is approaching a third of a million signatures! Fantastic work! Fantastic support! I regret that it isn’t on the Westminster parliament website because if it reached anything like that number there (which it might not for a variety of reasons) then it would have even more clout….
An opportunity
That nice Michael Gove wants to know what you think about National Parks in England (I think in England – I’ve only had a quick look). The consultation looks easy enouh to complete and we have ages to do so – two months. I’ll be coming back to this with some thoughts on how to…
More fall-out from RSPB AGM
Martin Harper’s blog carries a rapid account of the AGM but it has attracted more comments than usual. In Martin’s answers to comments he confirms that the RSPB is moving towards there being 200-300 fewer staff in three years’ time than now. This was not a figure that was revealed to the membership at the…
Monster Mice Gobble Gough Seabird Species
RSPB Press Release Tristan’s Albatross chick. Photo: J. Cleeland Albatross-eating mice responsible for two million fewer seabird chicks on UK island each year Introduced house mice on the UK Overseas Territory of Gough Island in the South Atlantic are killing seabirds at greater levels than feared resulting in at least two million fewer seabird chicks…