Feeding pet rabbits fruit and vegetables can make them obese
Hay is a much better food for a rabbit than fruit which is relatively high in sugar which can make rabbits obese.
Seahorse conservation off the Dorset coast, UK
New marine conservation zones have been announced today, Friday 31st 2019, one of which will protect seahorses from boats which ruin their habitat at Studland Bay in Dorset, UK. When boat owners put down anchors they damage the seahorse’s habitat. The new zones stretch from …
McDonald’s may serve up vegan burgers worldwide soon
In the near future, McDonald’s may well be serving up vegan burgers worldwide. The chief executive, Steve Easterbrook has given an indication that they’re going to introduce vegan options on the menu on a worldwide basis. McDonald’s are considering meat-substitutes alongside to him McNuggets and …
Moronic celebrities with primates as pets encourage animal abuse and hurt conservation
Celebrities who keep monkeys as pets are moronic and are doing a disservice to this wild species by often causing suffering and endangering them in the wild.
Message to Taylor Swift: please don’t think your cat is a baby
I get the sense that Taylor Swift relates to her three domestic cat companions as babies. She’s just acquired a new cat. She has called him Benjamin Button and he is totally adorable. He looks like a Ragdoll and they are a very, very placid …
Retired doctor on holiday killed by a shark in Hawaii
Thomas Smiley, 65, was a retired doctor on holiday at his favourite place, the island of Maui, Hawaii. He was enjoying himself but he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time said his friend Gary Taxera. As he was dragged from …
Ethiopia is going to plant 4 billion trees to repair the damage they have done
I call this the folly of man. First humans have to destroy the natural world to the point where it has almost disappeared and is broken. And then humans wake up to the damage they have done and decide that they can’t accept it. The …
Poppy the mountain gorilla in Rwanda has died aged about 43
Poppy could only be described as beautiful, with large, soft dark-brown eyes framed by long delicate eyelashes.
Mediterranean seahorses threatened by ghost fishing nets
Divers from Greece and Holland are removing “ghost nets” from the seabed in the Mediterranean because they pose a significant threat to marine wildlife in the waters off Stratoni, northern Greece and elsewhere. Stratoni, is the home of a large population of seahorses known as …
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