Please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
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
Good start!
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has got off to a very good start. It’s already over 6500 signatures and there are only (at the time of writing yesterday) five constituencies (out of c650) which have no signatures; three in Northern Ireland and two in London – we’ve seen this pattern before….
Two Bucks
I gave two talks in Buckinghamshire last week – one to 6th formers at Ousedale School and the other to the Bucks Bird Club – I enjoyed both. Talking to the young people about being a biologist and conservationist is one way that I can, in a small way, put something back after a long…
This week
If you are in London on Friday evening, and I’ve heard that there is little to do in big cities on Friday evenings, then come along and hear me talk at the Birkbeck Free Lecture series about why we should ban driven grouse shooting and why you might want to sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition on…
Objection to planning proposal
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