Following the successful publication of Red Sixty Seven in 2020 this is another run at the same group of species (with a net three additions) – those on the UK Red List because of their conservation status. Profits from the sale of this volume go to the BTO for work on such species and to…
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
RSPB press release
RSPB announces new President and Ambassadors Dr Amir Khan has been elected as the RSPB’s new President. Dr Khan is an NHS doctor, best-selling author and resident doctor on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and Lorraine, as well as being a nature enthusiast and environmental campaigner. The RSPB also announces their first-ever Ambassadors including Deborah Meaden, Megan McCubbin, and…
Guest blog – World Land Trust appeal by Andy Langley
Andy Langley is a wildlife enthusiast and supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), who will be doing a sponsored birdwatch this October to raise money for WLT’s ‘Life on the Edge’ appeal, to save unique foothill forests of Ecuador’s eastern Andes which are under threat. Each October, for the last five years, my employer Ecclesiastical…
More on bird flu
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North West Bird Watching Festival at Martin Mere cancelled because of bird flu. A dead Hen Harrier with bird flu from Highland in this week’s non-informative update from Defra (see here). Also five Gannets tested positive from two locations in Cornwall. Remember, the number of birds testing positive may not be the number of birds…
Sunday book review – Lichens by Vincent Zonca (translated by Jody Gladding)
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This is a very individual book, and I’m afraid it didn’t appeal much to this individual but that does not mean that it won’t appeal to you. So let me describe it. There are four parts to this book; First Contacts; To Describe, Name, Represent; Ecopoetics: Life Force and Resistance; Towards a Symbiotic Way of…