What is this bird and how did it die? Answer tomorrow, and much more through the week.
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
Dear Bradford Council – please ban the burn
Dear Councillor Love, I write to you because you are the chair of Bradford Council’s Environment & Waste Management Overview & Scrutiny Committee regarding the review of whether to allow burning to be included in the Ilkley Moor Management Plan. I am not a Bradford resident but I am a frequent visitor to the area….
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer
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Oscar writes: I’m back at uni in Durham until Christmas now, so won’t really be taking any photographs until then. Luckily I still have plenty from the past year that I haven’t shown here yet! Here’s one taken a few weeks ago; I spent several early mornings in Richmond Park before I left for uni,…
23,000 signatures
Another milestone was passed last week. Please sign this e-petition to get a debate in parliament about driven grouse shooting. BBC Countryfile has an online ‘debate’ on whether we should ban driven grouse shooting but they haven’t posted the link to the e-petition because the BBC can’t be seen to be ‘campaigning’. Hmm! Since when…
Eight years
Some of Ralph Underhill’s best cartoons from 2015
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Cartoonists deserve long holidays! Here’s a selection of some of Ralph’s best cartoons (IMHO) from earlier this year.
Three rather different environmentalists
We have this week, in just a couple of days, seen the passing of three impressive figures in UK nature conservation: Norman Moore, Michael Meacher and Mick Carroll. I knew all three of them a little and admired each of them a lot. It would probably be difficult to think of three more disparate figures,…
What is the UK government up to in the EU?
I was in Cley last night so I didn’t see the Channel 4 news. This interesting piece (wildlife protection to be watered down?), with Stanley Johnson (sire of Boris etc, and author of the Habitats Directive (see p88 of Fighting for Birds)), is worrying. It may be simply a language thing, although the Dutch are…
Guest blog – An astronaut’s life by Emma Websdale
Emma Websdale is a Conservation Biologist and writer. Working as the Senior Communications Officer for The Wildlife Trusts, she is particularly motivated in engaging younger audiences, helping them make sure that nature doesn’t drop off their agenda. She has written three previous Guest Blogs for this site (one about extinction and Passenger Pigeons, another other…
Guest blogs – I’m keen to have more
There have been many excellent Guest Blogs here over the years – and months, and weeks, and days (and there’s another one tomorrow). I like Guest Blogs because: I don’t have to write them, they add to the variety of the blog, experts can write about things of which I know little or nothing, they…