NEWS AND OPINION: HS2 has rapidly become a white elephant, a project that is already out-of-date before the first sleeper and track has been laid. The project is devastating to wildlife in the UK because it destroys their habitat. The … Continue reading →
NEWS AND COMMENT: Many beautiful trees have been cut down to make way for the doomed and already outdated HS2 rail link. I have written before about oak trees being felled causing great distress among nature lovers. HS2 is outdated … Continue reading →
The UK fish industry is in the news because of Brexit. It was a central part of the negotiations. Global warming may make those negotiations seem incidental in the long term because a study by Aberdeen University tells us that … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you but on my walks around the area where I live I not infrequently see small, black plastic bags containing dog poo on the pavement (sidewalk). It looks as though people are picking up their dog’s … Continue reading →
There’s been wailing and gnashing of teeth (and I would have joined them if I had known about it) at the felling of a magnificent plane tree adjacent to a road in Hackney, London. It was called the Happy Man … Continue reading →
A North Yorkshire community has achieved something which I think is very impressive. It almost points the way to the future of how people should live and take charge of their lives. What I love about this story is that … Continue reading →
In the interests of wildlife conservation, and the protection of our planet including the oceans, Amazon must take urgent steps to reduce the use of plastic in their packaging. This is the demand of any reasonable person including the campaign … Continue reading →
A research project – which is designed to open the eyes of humankind to the realisation that we can’t go on destroying the planet – came to the finding that if we weighed everything that humans had produced since 1900 … Continue reading →
The state of the environment is important for animal welfare. Damage the environment and you also harm the animals including of course the human-animal. There is a clear trend among the mighty manufacturers and retailers of gadgets, predominantly computers and … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: I’m going to be the only one who thinks like this. I don’t like to see a 30 year old, 43-foot tall Sitka spruce tree cut down in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, to take up the traditional … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: This is a cross post because I think the issue needs to be flagged up as strongly as possible. Some very high-profile and well-known cat and dog skin parasite treatments such as Frontline and Advantage contain strong … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: Tim Smit, 66, the creator of the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK, said that if natural history was taught in schools from the age of 5 to the age of 19, people would not damage the planet … Continue reading →
Trees are a home to wildlife. Ancient oak trees planted in the reign of George I, 300 years ago, are being cut down to make way for HS2. There are many examples but I’ve picked out a couple and I … Continue reading →
I’m not sure that it is strictly the change from square to rectangular which reduces the amount of plastic waste from cheese products because the amount of plastic remains the same it seems to me but Tesco, a major supermarket … Continue reading →
NEWS & VIEWS: This is an interesting minor crime, a misdemeanour in America. Two men admitted making their dinner by boiling chickens in a Yellowstone Park hot spring. Dallas Roberts was making dinner, he said, with his cousin Eric and … Continue reading →
It’s an interesting thought, the 5,000 or so poisonous chemicals in cigarettes can end up being leached into rivers and the sea. Cigarettes are known to be highly toxic. It is also known that fish have a good sense of … Continue reading →
PETA and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services both say, as do many others, that meat should be taxed in the same way that cigarettes, alcohol and gasoline (petrol) is currently taxed. It would be a “sin” … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): People in the business of making money from plants and gardening have acted unreasonably and in my honest opinion stupidly in criticising Monty Don, the well-known television gardening guru, for advising people not to buy peat … Continue reading →
In the UK, rivers are becoming more polluted from farms and water company sewer overflows; 84% of rivers have failed to meet government targets concerning ecological standards. The Environment Agency has cut farm inspections by 66% since 2014-15. They failed … Continue reading →
In the UK, peat harvesting takes place on an industrial scale and it is a total disaster so says Catherine O’Connell, the chief executive of the Irish Peatland Conservation Council. John Craven of the BBC Countryfile programme has said that … Continue reading →
