I get some of this. This was posted as a message on my Facebook page yesterday night, posted just before midnight, I see. ‘what a fckn blinkered idiot you are…! you and the like of Packham……………….you will never defeat shooting,insignificant idiots……………‘ It’s always nice to know that people care. The person who sent me this…
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
NT statement
I have just received this statement from the National Trust Press Office after asking them about the incident of a man sitting in the heather near a model Hen Harrier on National Trust land back in February. The NT Press Office also tell me that the incident took place on Snake Moorland. Jon Stewart,…
Right technology – wrong place!
To: Blue Sky Energy: dudu@blueskyenergy.co.il Kibbutz Eilot: zuko@keilot.co.il and talia@keilot.co.il EDF: actionnaire@edf.fr My Serious Concerns regarding the proposed Wind Farm near Eilat, Israel I have just returned from Eilat, Israel after taking part in “Champions of the Flyway,” one of the most important events in the birding conservation calendar worldwide. While in Eilat…
Thank you Steve.
It was kind of the Chair of the RSPB Council, Prof Steve Ormerod to make a rapid, initial, response to my blog of yesterday (and it is clear that he has read your comments there too). In case you missed it as a comment (posted this morning) here it is in full. Mark, I…
This man was not breaking the law
This man was spotted and filmed on a Peak District grouse moor, owned by The National Trust, in late February. The full story is on the Raptor Persecution Scotland website (NB guys – the Peak District is not in Scotland – when are you going to get around to changing your name?) and the guys…
You should go somewhere else for a while
Please read today’s blog on the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog, and then sign the e-petition that is the best Hen Harrier Plan in existence. And I’ll comment a bit later in the day – around 10:00 I guess.
Apologies to my MP
I should apologise to my MP, Tom Pursglove for suggesting that his reply to me was rather tardy – it has now arrived and the delay was clearly in the post and in getting from my letter box to me, rather than his fault! He is pretty quick and efficient at replying even though he…
Northants gleanings
It’s been good to visit some local sites over the last few days and check up on how Spring is progressing. At Glapthorn Wood on Friday evening it felt more like winter than spring. But a Nightingale sang in brief snatches, and without much enthusiasm: certainly not with ‘full-throated ease’. But he was there and…
RSPB Council – think again
It’s quite some time since I asked the Chair of RSPB Council about the RSPB position on driven grouse shooting – it’s almost 100 weeks ago. And Prof Ormerod was kind enough to reply too (see here). Before launching the current, third, e-petition on driven grouse shooting I went to talk to the RSPB about…
31,000 and rising
Yesterday our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 31,000 signatures. Thank you to everyone who has signed, shared and helped. The ‘100 Club’ of constituencies with at least 100 signatures: Calder Valley 179 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON Ross, Skye, Lochaber 155 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and…