Krill are small crustaceans, the bedrock of many marine species across all the oceans and in the Antarctic. They are considered to be the key to the health of fish, whale populations and penguins in the Antarctic. Although the Chinese have resolutely denied it, James …
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has provided advice on how British citizens should walk on ice to avoid falling over. They have referred to penguins because penguins instinctively walk on ice in a safe way because of millions of years of evolution! Britain is going …
The Times reports, today, that ‘bumping caviar’ as it’s called is becoming increasingly popular and has been ‘democratised’. What they mean is that eating caviar in this way is no longer for the rich but for anybody. And this democratisation of eating caviar is thanks …
NEWS: Fishermen are outraged by a four-week ban on trawler fishing to protect dolphins in the Bay of Biscay. A fisherman based in the port of Lege-Cap-Ferret, Olivier Argelas said: “It’s really brutal of the government to bar us from working for a month. Fishing …
NEWS AND OPINION Location: Waxham beach on the northeast Norfolk coast. A seal pup was spotted by a photographer walking on the beach. Her name is not disclosed in The Times overtly but I believe that she is Rachel Rickett. She telpehoned the Friends of …
Normally, Japan businesses export £33.5 million’s (6.3 billion yen) worth of koi carp to China annually. The exports require a licence from China and Japan’s 15 domestic carp farmers were licensed by the Chinese government for three years but those licences expired at the end …
There was a time, about a hundred years ago, when the Antarctic fur seal barely escaped extinction because they were hunted for their pelts in their millions. Numbers rebounded as the hunting of fur seals declined but now, thanks to climate change, they are threatened …
NEWS AND COMMENT-LAKE TEFE, AMAZON RIVER, BRAZIL: It has been put down to global warming as the primary reason for the death of 120 river dolphins in the Amazon River together with thousands of fish of other species. The scientists are still working on the …
NEWS AND OPINION: Against the advice of an expert, a woman picked up a baby seal on a beach near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, and wrapped the animal in her coat, I presume in attempt to rescue the animal, but it died of shock. Inadvertently, …
