Robert Gillmor is launching his latest book at what he says will be his last major exhibition, at the Pinkfoot Gallery, Cley on 28 April (exhibition closes 11 May). Put those dates in your diary! Robert says ‘This will be the last exhibition of its kind I’ll ever do – I don’t have anything…
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
Saving another £6
The National Trust has increaased its subscription rates. I’m not regretting my move to National Trust for Scotland.
Please support this thunderclap
Ed Hutchings’s thunderclap goes out on Friday at noon – it currently has a social reach of over 1 million and could reach more people if you add your name to it here. I’ll be interested to see what impact this has on the number of signatures for Ed’s RSPB-supported e-petition to license driven grosue…
Bowland gull cull 7 – licensing facts still kept secret by NE
I have reminded NE that they owe us all an explanation of the culling of gulls in an SPA which was set up partly to protect its colony of nesting gulls. ‘Nearly three months ago (see below) you told me that the NE investigation into the Bowland Gull Cull was moving to its final stages…
You can vote – this is why
It was on this day in 1918 that the Representation of the People Act received Royal Assent. This act, sometimes called the Fourth Reform Act, followed the previous three in 1832, 1867 and 1884. The Great Reform Act 1832 allowed male rural landowners, shopkeepers and those paying rent of over £10 per annum to vote….