I keep a kindly eye on those MPs who spoke in the ‘debate’ over banning driven grouse shooting in October 2016. One, the MP for Brecon and Radnorshire described me thus; ‘Only the other week I had the privilege of attending the evidence session on grouse shooting. Several right hon. and hon. Members have already…
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Guest blog – Swift starter kits by Claire Wordley
Claire Wordley works on the Conservation Evidence project, with an emphasis on getting people to use the available science in conservation – and to test their own conservation interventions. Claire wrote a guest blog, Evidence, Experts and Effectiveness in Conservation, in May 2018. Say hi at @ConservEvidence Swifter nest building with starter kits. Adding ‘nest…
Nice advert from the Wildlife Trusts
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I wonder what the substance is… See here…
Michael Gove for the few not the many…
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NSoames/status/1111214357386575872 Michael Gove is currently the favourite in the Betfair odds to be next Tory Leader (ahead of BoJo in 2nd place). This is generally regarded as the worst place to be in the betting for Tory Leader this early in the running – front-runners rarely last the course. But he’d better look more…
Making my fortune from book sales
The abuse I get on social media is pretty mild stuff compared with that received by others. It usually comprises allegations that I am fat (these are true), a liar (these are untrue, but then I might be lying in saying that) or in this campaigning lark for the money (ha ha!). Apparently I wrote…
RSPB press release
Tristan albatross Diomedea dabbenena, adult courtship dance, Gough Island, January. Andy Schofield (rspb-images.com) Island restoration would help slow global rate of extinction Introduced invasive species have been responsible for hundreds of extinctions, the majority of these on islands. Targeting 169 islands – including 20 in the UK’s Overseas Territories – as a priority for restoration…
Something I wrote…
… for the Green European Journal on rewilding.
20 years of Student Conference on Conservation Science at Cambridge
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Yesterday I spent some time at the Student Conference on Conservation Science at Cambridge. It started yesterday in the lecture theatre in which I had many of my first year undergraduate lectures 42 years ago. Nice to see the lecture theatre has had a lick of paint since then. I think I was wheeled out…
A good weekend
We gathered at Parkgate on The Wirral for the high tide at midday on Friday. As the tide comes in, particularly the highest tides (and this was an equinoctial high tide with a super moon!) the voles and mice on the saltmarsh swim for their lives and the predators gather for the feast (as do…
Fully funded inside 10 days!
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Wild Justice’s legal challenge to the General Licences is fully funded thanks to over 1100 of you. Thank you very much! We transferred £4,000 from the Wild Justice bank account, of donations that had arrived by that route, to the crowdfunding site, earlier today and closed the crowdfunder. We now have all the money we…