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…

Guest blog – At the Gates of the Supreme Court by Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy has lived in Northern Ireland since arriving on the ferry from Liverpool in 1984 as the RSPB’s first, and last, Assistant Regional Officer. Together with his German wife, Doris, he’s known to shout HALT! when special places are threatened like the Belfast Harbour Pools and the Bog Meadows – once zoned for development,…

Guest blog – it’s #TimeToBeHeard by Richard Benwell

  Richard has worked in the Westminster parliament as a researcher in the House of Lords and as a Senior Clerk for the Energy and Climate Change Committee. He is now Head of Government Affairs at WWT after spending a couple of years as a Parliamentary Officer at the RSPB. He wrote a previous guest…