NEWS AND VIEWS: A Fenn trap, a legal device provided it is constructed properly, has killed a little owl on the Queen’s Sandringham estate and in doing so it damages the Queen’s grandson’s credentials as a conservationist and environmentalist. To international readers, William, is the …
VINZIEUX, FRANCE – NEWS AND COMMENT: A 47-year-old fire officer, named as Gérard A by the media, was so incensed by being kept awake by the crowing of his neighbour’s rooster, Marcel, that he shot it and finished it off with an iron bar in …
A chicken comes to a boy on a farm for a hug on the boy’s request. It’s a silent request but it is there nonetheless and the chicken responds positively and as you can see they hug each other. And when you see this you …
Bird Buddy is a bird feeding station with a difference. It was created by a start-up company in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. As I understand it, the co-founders are Franci Zidar and Ziga Vrtacic. This is a bird feeding station which has numerous advantages …
There is a disturbing story in The Times newspaper today, Wednesday 18th 2020, in which it is reported that fishermen off South America’s Atlantic coast are abusing seabirds in various ways because they consider them pests or as an act of retribution against them. I …
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Since 2018 UK slaughterhouses have been required to have security cameras inside their facilities to detect potential breaches of animal welfare. The Gressingham Duck slaughterhouse, in Redgrave, Sussex did not have these cameras but, fortunately, Animal Justice Project had installed secret …
The story in The Times newspaper of a Czech carpenter, Pavel Jakes, 52, who went to shoot birds with an air rifle in Spring Water Park near Bury in Greater Manchester, UK, tells us that there is a wide disparity in the standards of animal …
I have bifold doors leading to my garden. I sit in bed in my living room (yes!) working on my website looking out into my garden. I feed the squirrels. They chuck some of their squirrel feed onto the ground where pigeons feed on it. …
The RSPB say that the proposed Sizewell C powerstation earmarked to be built between Dunwich and Aldeburgh could cause catastrophic damage to wildlife because the site is close to RSPB’s Minsmere reserve which is home to 6,000 species. The RSPB chief executive, Beccy Speight, said …
