This is quite a surprise and a nice one too. I’ve been short-listed by ‘The Great Outdoors‘ as a campaigner of the year. That’s very nice of them, and a treat just to be mentioned. Looking at the lists was an education – I don’t know many names but I think I’ll be voting for…
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A good evening with BTO & SWLA
I missed last year’s BTO evening with the SWLA so I was glad to make this one. Always a good evening with an interesting mixture of people. The Mall Galleries is a pretty good setting for an event and it was filled on Wednesday evening. I’m sure the artwork was superb but I hardly saw…
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All that lead, all that burning – sustainable upland management? Please sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
Dr Coffey’s reading list (3)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it passed 9000 yesterday) then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do already…
Guest blog – Making Notes and Plans by Tim Reed
Although an ornithologist by training, Tim Reed has a background in monitoring and data quality- starting with standardising management planning and data recording for the statutory sector, moving on to developing the widely-used Common Standards site condition model. After a long period introducing peer-reviewable data and biodiversity and ecosystem reporting models in big corporates around…