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MA is an English ornithologist, conservationist, environmental campaigner, author and former director of the RSPB. He has campaigned on issues surrounding gr moors; HH;; and in launched an epetition in 2015 which forced a debate by the Houses of Parliament Petitions cttee.[1][2]
"Mr Avery told a parliamentary committee hearing this month that only a ban would tackle the problems from an “intransigent industry” stuck in the Victorian age."[5]
He worked as the RSPB's conservation director for thirteen years[6][7]
Argumnet against US concerns over cats impacts on wildlife: [8]
MPs to debate ban on grouse shooting:
Quoted text: Mark Avery, a campaigner and former head of the RSPB, launched the petition in March with backing from broadcasters Chris Packham and Bill Oddie, and the League Against Cruel Sports, calling for grouse shooting to be banned because he said it often leads to the illegal killing of birds of prey, which eat red grouse - end- [9]
As a boy he grew up in Bristol, and went to Bristol Grammar School where his interest and fasination with birds was first awakened, and was a member of school's Young Ornithologists’ Club. He trained as a scientist and he studied Biological Sciences at Oxford University, and Conservation at UCL. He worked for 25 years at the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and was its Conservation Director for 12 years before retiring to work freelance. He now lives in rural Northamptonshire.[10]
