Simon Marsh’s day job is Head of Planning Policy at the RSPB, leading a small team which seeks to ensure the planning system in England is good for nature. Wearing another hat, he is also an advisor to the Christian conservation charity, A Rocha UK. Working for an organisation like the RSPB, you sometimes have…
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Wuthering Moors 32
Blogs entitled ‘Wuthering Moors’ form a series of articles about the Walshaw Moor Estate and its relationship with Natural England and Defra. Defra were supposed to reply today to my complaint over their late and uncommunicative response to an FoI request. I had an email from them on Friday saying that they have now decided…
Uncomfortable results for the RSPB
An overwhelming proportion of the respondents to the poll on this website do not approve of the planned change of the name of BIRDS magazine to ‘Nature’s Home’. The final results were 66 (12%) in favour and 497 (88%) against the change . When the poll started, the first 13 votes were ‘no’, and I…
What’s in a name?
I’m quite happy being called Mark. It’s nice and short, easy to say and comes from the Roman god of war – Mark was one of the three commonest male names in Ancient Rome. And seems fitting given that I was born in March too. My surname, Avery, is of uncertain origin. I had a…
That RSPB TV advert – what I think
I think that the RSPB TV advert is a welcome gamble by the RSPB – I’m sure they’ve done lots of research to make it less of a gamble but it’s still a gamble. Rumour has it, though I haven’t checked, that it’s a £2m gamble. What would a ‘big win’ look like if this…