I’ve been slightly on edge for a while as I’ve been waiting for my treasured binoculars to be returned to me – and, as you know, I’m heading to Israel at the end of the week. When I say that my binoculars are treasured you might wonder, in that case, why I keep dropping them…
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
This sounds very bad
Hen Harrier “Lad” found dead on Speyside – read the full RSPB account Slight doubt about whether it was shot or not? Estate not named – quite rightly. see also blog by Raptorpersecutionscotland
6000 signatures
I’m just blown away by the speed at which people are signing the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – thank you to all who have signed. Yesterday, we passed 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000 signatures and as we pass the 48 hours mark the total now stands at 6689 – that’s two-thirds of the…
Ban driven grouse shooting Facebook page
Our Facebook page is still here. Henry likes it.
Letter to my MP on Fineshade Wood
Dear Mr Pursglove As part of your ‘Listening to Corby and east Northants‘ campaign I’m sure you would like to know how I feel about the possibility of a major development at Fineshade Wood. I’m against it! I was glad to see that you too were against it when you were seeking election and I…
Looking forward to my West Country tour!
I’m talking to the Devon Birds AGM on Wednesday evening (7.00pm at the Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford, Exeter EX6 7UX. The Exeter Court Hotel is just off the A38 on the westbound carriageway. Directions can be found on the hotel’s website here) and to the Somerset Ornithological Society on Thursday evening (7.30pm at Ruishton Village…
The map is almost filled in
That’s the first 24 hours of this e-petition – and we have whizzed past 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 signatures. Thank you everyone! Almost every one of the 650 UK parliamentary constituencies has already got at least one signature registered in it – and the Calder Valley has 32. The map above is hours out…
Humberstone Bank Farm – beyond nature
Yorkshire Water is making an interesting offer – help them improve water quality, water retention and carbon storage on their land while ‘working with the sporting interest’ on an upland farm north of Blubberhouses. Blubberhouses Moor in Yorkshire is mentioned in Inglorious (page 59) as the site where a stroppy rich man, Lord Walsingham, shot…
What a great start – thank you!
When I woke this morning I knew there was something I had to do – check on the number of signatures on the e-petition I launched yesterday. It was around 1pm yesterday that I noticed that the e-petition had gone live – I wasn’t expecting it to happen at the weekend. By the time I…
Wow! You are amazing!
It took about 10 hours for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting to pass 2000 signatures on Day 1. Thank you for all the likes, shares, ReTweets etc