18.01.2024 - Indoor Meeting : Reflections

Speaker: Mark Avery
Reporter: Sue Gale
Mark Avery paid us a visit in January, and we were very pleased to welcome him – you can rely on Mark to make you think And we absolutely do not believe his claim that he isn’t often invited back! Mark is a naturalist, author, consultant and campaigner who admits to being ‘better’ at birds, mammals and butterflies than he is on plants and most invertebrates. He is
co-founder with Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay of Wild Justice, but he was here to promote his new book “Reflections”, in which he considers the current state of nature and of nature conservation. He took us through the book chapter by chapter for the first half of the evening, and then after the break he invited questions/ discussion. The interest aroused can be judged
by the fact that this session exceeded its allotted time and took us very close to kicking-out time.

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