Based in the Cairngorms National Park, Peter Cairns has been a conservation photographer for 20 years. Co-founder of projects such as Tooth & Claw, Wild Wonders of Europe and 2020VISION, his latest initiative focuses closer to home. Much of what is written on this blog quite rightly shines a…
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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
Wuthering Moors 53
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I recently contacted Natural England and asked them the following questions which they have been kind enough to answer as follows: Q1: Has NE’s James Cross met Richard Bannister of the Walshaw Moor Estate in 2016? A1: Yes, he has, on 4th February 2016. Q2: What was the subject of their meeting? …
M&S AGM
Marks and Spencer – your AGM is a week tomorrow. Please can you tell us all whether you really are planning to sell Red Grouse meat in your stores this autumn or whether we ought to start a boycott of M&S goods now? M&S claims to have an industry-leading code of practice for game meat…
Nature Club update by E Truss (Senior Prefect) as imagined by Jonathan Wallace
St Margaret’s School (school motto Fides in mercato) Nature Club By E Truss (Senior Prefect) Gosh! Hello everyone! What an exciting week or so it has been! We are all feeling a little bit dazed after everything that has happened since the decision was taken to take the school out of…
Oscar Dewhurst – Barn Owl
Oscar writes: I finished my second year university exams in Durham about a month ago, and was in Suffolk for 10 days soon after that to do some photography. One of the birds I spent most time photographing was Barn Owls which were hunting in some fields either side of a small road. Luckily they…
Win a signed copy of the new paperback Inglorious
It’s not a big prize, but it’s better than nothing! Let’s see whether you can predict the number of signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting at my bedtime on 31 July. That will be after 10pm but might well be before midnight – although if timing is critical, because it might be…
50,000 signatures
50,000!! Pardon my excitement – but I am excited! A couple of years ago the idea that there would be popular support for banning the favoured hobby of the rich – blasting Red Grouse out of the air for fun – seemed somewhat optimistic. Now it seems like a popular movement. Thank you to all…
Inglorious – new edition in paperback
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Available from 28 July – or probably earlier! This is the paperback edition of Inglorious and it contains an extra chapter to bring things up to date.
49,000 signatures
49000 signatures. That sounds very close to 50,000 signatures. And that is half way to 100,000 signatures. And that gets us a debate on the future of grouse shooting in the Westminster parliament and much more understanding of the problems caused by the hobby of a few at the expense of the many. Here, in…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Which way did you vote? It comes to something when I am slightly relieved that it might be Theresa May who is running the country! The Brexiteers didn’t have a clue what they were doing – or so it seems – except they knew what they didn’t want. But they didn’t have a route map…