It’s always nice to be noticed and praised – and that’s what book of the year lists do – see mine here. So, it was obviously very pleasing to see Inglorious listed in two book-of-the-year lists yesterday – the Guardian and The Times. In both cases Inglorious was nestling in with lots of good reads…
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 blog’s books of the year
I have reviewed 28 books on this blog this year – an average of more than one a fortnight. Some of these are sent to me by publishers or authors, some I simply go out and buy. Which books you like is as personal a choice as what music you like. But for what it’s…
Christmas presents for readers…
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Tomorrow I’ll tell you which were my top five books of 2015… (click here for last year’s choices). But if you’d like signed copies of any of my books then you can get them direct from me – click here. Prices include 2nd class postage – as it gets closer to Christmas you’ll have to…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
This blog
November 2015 was a good month for this blog with the fourth-highest number of page views (82882) and the sixth-highest number of unique users (18600). Compared with last November page views were 7.5% higher and unique users were 21% up.
Guest blog – Death of Democracy by Andy Lester
Andy Lester is conservation director of the wildlife charity A Rocha UK. He also works as Chair to his local Wildlife Trust group, speaks nationally on wildlife issues and regularly writes columns for newspapers and magazines. Andy is married to Jacqui and live in Hampshire with their four boys. The residents of Roseacre and Little…
National Trust position on toxic ammunition and deer culling
The National Trust (E, W & NI), is a relatively small player in the world of deer culling – many hundred deer (perhaps low thousands) are culled on their very large landholding each year, but those are mostly with lead bullets at the moment (except where working in partnership with the RSPB where copper bullets…
Forest Enterprise Scotland position on toxic lead ammunition
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Forest Enterprise Scotland seem to be moving rather more slowly towards getting rid of toxic lead ammunition – although I get the impression that they are probably heading in the right direction. What do you think – this is what they sent me as a statement?: Forest Enterprise Scotland (FES) said: “Due to concerns regarding…
Forest Enterprise England to dump toxic ammunition
There is, of course, no need for anyone to wait for a legal ban on lead ammunition, or for Defra to stir themselves – they can just switch themselves. The legal move will sweep up the recalcitrant, the uninformed and the bloody minded and selfish. For example, the RSPB made the decision to drop lead…
Dear Secretary of State
Dear Ms Truss It is six months since you received the report of the Lead Ammunition Group and your department has, so far, not commented on it. Given that the findings of the report demonstrate human health impacts and wildlife health and conservation impacts your idleness is unacceptable. Each day you delay you are complicit…