Yesterday evening, at the Mall Galleries, surrounded by beautiful artwork, Professor Jeremy Wilson of the RSPB Conservation Science team received the Marsh Award for Ornithology. I’ve known Jeremy for many years and he is both a very nice and a very bright bloke. Here’s what he said to me: MIA: How do you feel…
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Wildlife photographer of the year 2012
This exhibition is always worth a visit – even if it does cost £10 to get in. And nature looks as good as ever! There are some constant favourites – more polar bears and other bears, tigers and foxes, whales and penguins – all deserving of their places as they were striking images. But there…
Raptor round up
It would be perfectly possible to write about birds of prey, how wonderful they are and their troubled and shortened lives, every day on this blog. I try not to do that because there are other sites that do it so well (raptor politics and raptor persecution Scotland) and because there are other big issues…
Ralph Underhill cartoon
Speaking and signing and so forth
I have been doing even more talking than usual recently! I’ve talked at my former school (Bristol Grammar), at a debate on pandas at the Linnaean Society, to a bunch of young conservationists at Cambridge University and on Radio 4’s Saving Species programme on raptors. Tomorrow I am RSPB Leighton Moss talking (1100-1200) about nature…