The Vote for Policies website is a very useful tool. I like it. The idea is that it shows you the policies of the major political parties in different subject areas (including ‘environment’) and without knowing which party is which you choose the ones you like most. After you have gone through this process it…
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
Cabinet Secretary Roseanna Cunningham gets tough on the sources of wildlife crime
Cabinet Secretary, Roseanna Cunningham, has come to the end of her tether with grouse moor managers in Scotland – that much is clear. Good for her! Answering questions in the Scottish parliament this afternoon she announced the publication of the review of ‘the disappeared’ satellite-tagged Golden Eagles (see here) but also a raft of measures…
Satellite-tagged Golden Eagles killed on grouse moors – official!
Golden Eagles are illegally killed on grouse moors – it’s official. It’s not a surprise, and it’s been a while coming, but there isn’t a hiding place for grouse moor managers in Scotland. And we are sure to see Scottish politicians following through on this report – after all, they’ve had enough time to think…
Ahem!
I’ll come back to the meat of the Greener UK hustings over the next couple of days, but I wanted to tell you about this. I’d been out in the open air of east Northants most of the morning, and then stood on Wellingborough station platform for a while before getting the train into London….
Greener UK hustings
I trotted around the streets of east Northants yesterday morning delivering leaflets for Beth Miller, the Labour candidate for Corby, and then put on my suit and tie and headed into London for the Greener UK hustings. This was a chance, a very rare chance, for the environment to be centre stage in political discourse…
Dear Mr Pursglove
Dear Mr Pursglove You are definitely not the worst MP I’ve ever had – not by a long way. After all, there was Louise Mensch. And I do appreciate the speed and the care with which you have responded to my letters to you. You get high marks there. The trouble is, you are a…
Signs of the times
Yesterday I was at the RSPB nature reserve at Frampton Marsh on a cloudy, slightly drizzly and breezy day. But it was great, and we saw lots of birds. In fact, we saw 68 species and through the wonders of Birdtrack I know that on the same date last year, on another visit to Frampton…
Environmental protection post-Brexit
I watched the Channel 4 programme last night and thought that Paxman was quite clever in giving Jeremy Corbyn little time to answer any question before interrupting, and yet Corbyn did answer them, and giving TM the PM lots of time, and yet she couldn’t answer them. In some ways, and probably unintentionally, he helped…
Tim Melling – Duke of Burgundy
Tim writes: Apart from being the sole European representative of a tropical family of butterflies, Duke of Burgundy has another unusual attribute. Males and females have a different number of legs. Everyone knows that all insects have six legs, but sometimes they are reduced to become vestigial appendages, hardly visible at all. This is exactly…
Bank holiday Monday book review – Stories from the Leopold Shack by Estella Leopold.
Aldo Leopold was a wildlife philosopher and guru, and is widely seen to have been a highly influential leader of environmental thinking in the USA. This book, written by one of his daughters, is a tribute to Leopold and an account of the family times in the shack in the Wisconsin woods which features in…