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In June 2012, The Mammal Society published UK BAP Mammals: Interim Guidelines for Survey Methodologies, Impact Assessment & Mitigation [1] for species for which there was previously no available guidance. The definitive publication of The Mammal Society is the 4th edition of Mammals of The British Isles Handbook.
He was president of The Mammal Society [5] [6] from 1997 until his death, and edited their journal, Mammal Review from 1980–2002. [4] He authored or co-authored over 200 scientific publications. [ 5 ]
There are no endemic mammal species in Great Britain, although four distinct subspecies of rodents have arisen on small islands. The following tags are used to highlight the conservation status of each species' British population, as assessed by Natural England and The Mammal Society in a Regional Red List , following the criteria of the ...
The Animals' Friend Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was an animal welfare organisation founded in 1832 by Lewis Gompertz and T. Forster. Along with the RSPCA, it was a pioneering organisation advocating for animal welfare in the United Kingdom. After Gompertz's retirement in 1846, the society disbanded.
For most of its history, the British Isles were part of the main continent of Eurasia, linked by the region now known as Doggerland.Throughout the Pleistocene the climate alternated between cold glacial periods, including times when the climate was too cold to support much fauna, and temperate interglacials when a much larger fauna was present.
The Cairngorms National Park is the UK's biggest national park, sprawling across 1,748 sq miles (2,813 sq km) and includes parts of five local authorities - Aberdeenshire, Angus, Highland, Moray ...
In 1999, Dr Martyn Gorman, senior lecturer in zoology at Aberdeen University and vice chairman of the UK Mammal Society called for a reintroduction of wolves to the Scottish Highlands and English countryside in order to deal with the then 350,000 red deer damaging young trees in commercial forests. Scottish National Heritage considered re ...
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