Last night’s Countryfile programme was great on butterflies and better than usual on crimes against birds of prey. You can watch the whole entertaining programme here and the raptor slot started at about 10:20 into the show (the butterflies before were really great!). Tom Heap was the presenter of this item and he’s pretty good,…
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Primates 3
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This was the last episode in an excellent 3-part series and was entitled Protecting Primates although, really, it wasn’t mostly about protecting primates and it was about quite a lot of things. If one wanted to be critical of the programme one would say that it was a bit bitty – and lacked a narrative…
The life scientific with Prof Debbie Pain
This programme is quite fun – my friend Debbie Pain talks about lead poisoning, saving Asian vultures and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Although I’m sure there is even more to come, the examples demonstrate how Debbie has already had a career packed with both scientific and conservation achievement. It’s well worth a listen. And it provides…
Primates 2
The gibbons were particularly funky. And it’s the birthday of the primate narrator of this series today. Happy Birthday Chris Packham!
Primates 1
Last night saw the first of this three-part series on primates, narrated by Chris Packham. The images were stunningly good showing the habitats occupied, whether a flooded Amazon rainforest, Madagascar or the temples of Kathmandu. But my favourite sequences were of Drills (similar to, but different from, Mandrills) from the tropical island of Bioko (formerly…
Seven Worlds, One Planet (7)
Well that’s it – no continents left! We finished with Africa. Cheetahs, Elephants, White Rhinos and all that stuff. The Brown Hyaena was rather good. What will I and millions of others do for an hour next Sunday? But much more importantly what will we all do in our separate few minutes on Thursday? David…
The BBC’s carbon footprint
I’m addicted to the Today programme and a big fan of Martha Kearney but I do wonder why she is broadcasting from Antarctica at the moment. There may be lots of reasons why Martha is in Antarctica, perhaps she is doing a whole series of filming and broadcasting assignments, but I do wonder whether the…
Farming Today again
Farming Today went back this morning to their not entirely accurate story from yesterday about the RSPB having a look at its policy on game shooting. Apart from the repetition of Martin Harper’s out-of-date ‘up to 50 million gamebirds’ (figure from GWCT is now 47m Pheasants and 10m Red-legged Partridges which is a long way…
Farming Today on RSPB and game shooting
Martin Harper was interviewed on Farming Today this morning. Martin did well but it was one of those unsatisfactory interviews where Anna Hill simply got lots of things wrong – listen here from about 9 minutes into the programme through until the end. In the introduction (which Martin won’t have heard until today) Hill says…
Listen again to Farming Today
Farming Today last Saturday morning had a discussion about shooting between Andrew Gilruth of GWCT and Pat Thompson of RSPB. Pat did very well but it’s more interesting to listen to Gilruth I think. He rarely answers the question. He reminds me so much of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s performance in Parliament yesterday evening – smooth, unruffled,…