Rob is an independent commentator, broadcaster, facilitator, critical thinker on rural and environmental affairs
He chairs debates, brokers dialogue, lead walks, publishes letters in The Times, presented two TV series (survival fishing/rural living), is a rural chartered surveyor and founder of Countryside Critical and Track II Dialogue
Latest: A conversation with Rob on farming (14min). Letter in The Times re birds of prey predation. Article in Farmers Guardian on vertical farming. Vlog on curlew. NEW! Rural Science page
Recent: BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast with Rob. Letters: farmland wildlife and access | wildlife/renewable energy| hedgerows|Ag bill | forestry | farmland birds | flooding |deer fencing | badgers | heather burning |trees in hedges Keynote and moderator for Local Nature Partnership.
Upcoming: Interview piece with Prof Tim Benton. Talk to school’s Science Soc. Moderate BOU conf on birds and humans. Book review of Mary Colwell’s ‘Beak, Tooth & Claw’.
Insight: a podcaster, Ben Eagle, was brave enough to undertake an hour’s Zoom interview with Rob now on YouTube – Agriculture Act 20.00 min, farming 24.00, shooting 31.00, fishing 34.45, rewilding 37.20, forestry 40.13, uplands 43.00, social media 49.00, and reconciliation countryside 53.00
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