Bid to make Glen Affric Scotland’s next beaver release site A community consultation that will help decide whether beavers are reintroduced to Glen Affric has been launched in the Scottish Highlands, led by Trees for Life. The rewilding charity is carrying out the consultation on behalf of four private landowners and Forestry and Land Scotland,…
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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
RSPB press release – White-tailed Eagles
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Iconic white-tailed eagles celebrate silver anniversary with 25th chick A pair of white-tailed eagles on Mull have recently celebrated their 25th anniversary by successfully fledging their 25th chick. Skye and Frisa are the UK’s oldest known white-tailed eagle pair at 28 and 30 years old respectively. They paired up in 1997 and had their first chick the following…
Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year prize
This is a new writing prize – for environmental poetry. The closing date is midnight on 1 September and you are asked to submit a portfolio of 150-200 lines of poetry – click here for full details.
It’s always touching to get a personal reply from a Minister of the Crown
Bird/Poultry flu. A couple of days ago the RSPB sent out a strongly worded press release, which I reproduced here, which was entitled ‘Defra asleep at the wheel in bird flu emergency’. I tweeted about it later that day: I received a response from Richard Benyon himself: It’s always good to have got a Minister’s…
RSPB press release – Bee-eaters hatch chicks in Norfolk
Rare bee-eaters right at home in Costa del Cromer: but it’s a red alert for global warming Rare bee-eater chicks have hatched in a Norfolk quarry amid the UK’s first ever red warning for heat. Having previously been rare visitors, breeding attempts by these brightly-coloured birds are increasing in the UK, with six recorded in…