The butterfly monitoring scheme managed by Butterfly Conservation brings us good wildlife conservation news. I have to balance the bad with the good. More than 66% of butterfly species in Britain were seen in greater numbers in 2018 compared to 2017 due to the blistering …
Call it what you like, what comes around goes around or it’s karma, either way a poacher hunting rhinos in the Kruger National Park was stomped on by an elephant and eaten by a pride of lions. I call it nature’s retribution and teamwork. Without …
The story of Riff Raff, a 45-year-old bull elephant in South Africa, highlights a major problem in wildlife conservation on the planet, namely, the invasion of people onto territory occupied by wild species resulting in an ever present conflict over shrinking space between animals and …
Extraordinarily, two-tonne walruses are climbing steep rocky cliff faces to escape beaches overcrowded with other walruses whereupon they fall off to their deaths when trying to get down to feed. This is perhaps the most stark example of the effects of climate change in the …
I am very optimistic about this new method of testing drugs. It’s called organs-on-a-chip. The video below explains what it is. Essentially, it means that drugs can be tested in an entirely artificial environment. This should, and I hope, must translate into less animal testing. …
This is quite a long-running story. It was exposed some months ago. At a USDA testing centre (the Agricultural Research Service – ARS) young cats were being fed with Toxoplasma gondii infected cat meat imported from China and I believe dog meat as well. The …
This is a novel way of abandoning your cat secretly but in plain sight. The story comes from Scotland, UK. We are told by the online website fifetoday.co.uk that a man walked into a pet shop in Fife, Dunfermline Pets at Home, and abandoned a …
This is a very quick feline health tip. To regularly check your cat’s teeth and gums run a cotton bud along the gum line (the point where gums meet teeth) . If you see blood on the cotton bud or your cat shows signs of …
A mother bravely fought with a mountain lion in her back garden to save her seven-year-old son who was being pinned down by the cat. Her deeds are being seen as a miracle in the local church, the Lake Cowichan Christian Fellowship Church, Vancouver Island. …
