There’s a long review of Inglorious in October’s British Birds, by Chris Smout. ‘impassioned’ ‘singularly well-informed’ ‘the evidence he [that’s me] marshals for the deleterious effects of driven grouse shooting is impressive’ Where the good professor parts company with me is in my solution to the problems of driven grouse shooting, which of course,…
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Guest Blog – NHM threatens wildlife (garden) by Peter Marren
How many of you, I wonder, have visited the wildlife garden, nestled in the western corner of the grounds of the Natural History Museum? I must admit I hadn’t until last week, and was amazed at what I found. Created exactly twenty years ago as the Museum’s ‘first living exhibition’, it boasts a miniature chalk…
Another record month for this blog
September was a record month for this blog (despite being of 30 days). It was the second month in a row to exceed 100,000 page views – 102,129 – just slightly lower than August 2015’s total. But in terms of unique users, the 23,311 surpasses all previous totals (previous highest June 2014 22,238). In September…
Another review of Inglorious
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There’s a very nice short review of… …by David Cobham, the author of… …reviewed here. Have a look at what David writes and then you might want to buy both of our books? A Sparrowhawk’s Lament by David Cobham (illustrated by Bruce Pearson) is published by Princeton University Press. Inglorious – conflict in the uplands…
Big Match Fortnight for World Land Trust
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I’m on the Council of the excellent World Land Trust and I’d like to ask you to support them with a donation in the next two weeks. During Big Match Fortnight (1-15 October) any money you and I donate will be matched by kind donors up to a limit of £250,000 – so ‘our’ £250k…