A discussion has arisen about a new Netflix wildlife series made for television called Tiny Creatures. In one episode, a barn owl preys on a mouse in a desert area in southern America. What you see in this episode is not real in the sense …
You might know that Carrie Symonds is a wildlife campaigner and animal advocate. She is the fiancée of Boris Johnson, Britain’s Prime Minister. She is, therefore, at the heart of the British government and it is great for animal advocates to have her in that …
The Earl of Hopetoun is Andrew Hope. His family has owned the Leadhills estate of 19,500 acres for 300 years. It is farmland and moorland across South Lancashire. It has a reputation, it is reported in The Times, as an alleged wildlife crime hotspot. The …
When irresponsible fishermen lose or dump their nets at sea they create “ghost fishing nets” which can kill marine wildlife by trapping the animals. There is a volunteer organisation (a charity) called Ghost Fishing UK which is dedicated to removing ghost fishing nets to release …
Inline with the toppling of statues of individuals who were once heroes but are now seen as politically incorrect individuals such as those that participated in the slave trade and became rich on the back of it, the same attitude is affecting the naming of …
NEWS-VIEWS-OPINION: I am sure that I am not the only one who is noticing discarded facemasks on the pavement or roads and even on country walks. It is occurring in any country. I live in the UK and is certainly happening here. I’m not seeing …
The infographic is by Ruth aka Kattaddorra. She is a cat lover who lives in the North of England. She created the infographic many years ago. Every day I pick up my cat several times. He asks me to do it. It is a ritual. …
A man-made nest carefully constructed by volunteers by placing sticks on a remote cliff where the remains of an old nest had been, has encouraged and indeed succeeded in attracting a golden eagle to rear her young on a Highland estate for the first time …
About 6 years ago I wrote about the Bangladeshi and Indian people working in the sprawling 10,000 square kilometre Delta of mangrove swamps called the Sundarbans and how they protected themselves from tiger attacks by wearing masks. The masks are placed on the back of …
