John Burton, the founder and long-time Chief Executive of the World Land Trust is stepping down and his successor will be Dr Deborah Pain who is currently the Conservation Director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. I hope to persuade John to write a Guest Blog here. For more on Debbie see…
Tag: Debbie Pain
Shoot a few, poison a few more
Back to another Tim Bonner quote from his blog in the Huffington Post. I said that I would remind you of what he wrote: ‘Bonner, presumably on the basis of shooting some ducks, regards the estimates of dying waterfowl from lead poisoning in the UK each year as ‘nothing more than speculation‘. Remember that quote…
A friendly challenge to Martin Spray (WWT) and Mike Clarke (RSPB)
(This blog is long!) Dear Martin and Mike Your two organisations deserve huge credit for the role that they have played in getting us to a position where the prospect of lead ammunition being banned, on human health, animal welfare and nature conservation grounds is very high. This has taken years, and consumed years and…
Review of Behind the Binoculars in the Sunday Express
Keith Betton and I signed a lot of copies of our book at the Bird Fair over the weekend. We also did a little turn in the Authors’ Forum where we talked about the book but also talked to two of the interviewees in the book – DIM Wallace and Debbie Pain. It was a…
You can still win a signed copy of Behind the Binoculars
There have been very few entries for this fiendishly difficult quiz which could win you a copy of Behind the Binoculars (see review by Rare Bird Alert here) – but someone must win, so why not have a go! Entries close tomorrow (Sunday) at 1800. Behind the Binoculars is a series of interviews with birdy…
Are you in Behind the Binoculars? And a readers’ offer.
You are if you are one of the interviewees: Ian Newton, the late Phil Hollom, Rebecca Nason, Chris Packham, Steph Tyler, Debbie Pain, Stuart Winter, Lee Evans, Steve Gantlett, Mark Cocker, Ian Wallace, Andy Clements, Mike Clarke, Roger Riddington, Stephen Moss, Alan Davies and Ruth Miller, Robert Gillmor and the two ‘authors’. You are if…
Win a signed copy of Behind the Binoculars
Soon you will be able to buy a new book of mine which I’ve put together with my friend Keith Betton and will be published by Pelagic (who also published Fighting for Birds). It’s called Behind the Binoculars and it’s a series of interviews with birders about how they first got into birds, what birds…
Easy win on lead, minister
The incoming DEFRA ministers, will soon have to make a decision on whether to ban the use of lead ammunition in England. The science is pretty straightforward, and has been reviewed by an expert group, but the expected recommendation, to ban lead ammunition, will be deeply unpopular with vocal interest groups. I had a part…
Coming soon – Behind the Binoculars
This is my next book, and we (it is a joint production with Keith Betton) have just gone through the proofs. It should be out in early June despite the publisher’s website saying August! The book is a series of interviews with birders about how they got into birds, what birds mean to them, and…
Good news from Quito! Twice!
Governments across the world commit to stopping lead poisoning in migratory birds As described in my earlier blogs (here and here) the inter-governmental Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) has been holding a Conference of the Parties (COP) in Quito, Ecuador this week. One of the Resolutions aimed at stopping the poisoning of migratory birds includes…