After a certain amount of consultation and some field testing, this is the design of general leaflet available if you would like to hand some out or stick some through letter boxes. The leaflets are fairly stiff card (certainly not floppy paper), A5 size and look rather good (even if I say so myself). 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
63,000
63,000 signatures. Here’s a slightly different way of looking at the results so far. We need to get the average (mean) constituency across the whole UK to 154 votes by midnight (I think) on 20 September to get to 100,000 signatures and trigger a debate on the future of driven grouse shooting. Some constituencies are…
Tim Melling – Polar Bear and Ivory Gull
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Tim writes: the Ivory Gull is inextricably linked to the ecology of the Polar Bear. The majority of Ivory Gulls remain in the high Arctic throughout the year, even in deep winter when there is 24 hour darkness. They follow Polar Bears around waiting for them to make a seal kill, then they scavenge the…
Is that your best shot? Thanks for trying…
Fieldsports magazine has asked its reader (is there more than one?) to use this handy checklist on social media to ‘spread the truth about grouse moor management’ – here are some responses. Please feel free to respond to any social media on this subject by linking to these answers. Presumably this is the best that…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
More illegal traps – another grouse moor. Whose side are you on?
Another month, another illegal trap, another driven grouse moor in another National Park. This trap, in fact these traps, found in the open by two walkers, were more easily located because they contained a severely injured Common Gull whose injuries were so bad that it was euthanised. The story is well told by our older…
Truss’s troubles
Schadenfreude is an unworthy feeling, but the fact that the Germans have a word for it and we do not is entirely to their credit, for it is a common human emotion. I thought we had seen the end of mentions of the hopeless Liz Truss on this blog as she exited to the Ministry…
Guest blog – Otters are in trouble by Grace Yoxon
I studied Geology and Biology at Keele University and graduated in 1979. My husband and I moved to Skye in 1980 and in 1984 we set up the Skye Environmental Centre to run courses in geology and wildlife. We then started receiving injured wildlife and this was the start of the animal rescue and rehabilitation…
#notsoglorious
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Are you in the new chapter?
The paperback edition of Inglorious has an extra chapter which covers events in 2015 and the very early parts of 2016. It will be in shops very soon – official publication date is a week away but somehow they seem to slip out earlier. Who gets a mention in the new chapter? Hawk and Owl…