NEWS AND VIEWS: I’m going to be the only one who thinks like this. I don’t like to see a 30 year old, 43-foot tall Sitka spruce tree cut down in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, to take up the traditional position at Parliament Square, Westminster …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Jane Goodall is known worldwide and is internationally respected as a primatologist and anthropologist. She is one of the best known animal advocates on the planet and she will please a lot of people concerned with animal welfare today because she is …
Caerphilly county borough council drained Deri Lake, near Bargoed which contained fish and they did so without notifying the Rhymney Valley and District Angling Society. We don’t know why they drained the lake but allegedly the fish in it were sucked into the drainage pipe …
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Shortly after taking office in 1933 the then US president, Franklin Roosevelt, set up the Civilian Conservation Corps with the intention of providing work for jobless young men. The project was successful in that 3 billion trees were planted and 800 …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Although £40 million is nowhere near enough to be pledged by Boris Johnson for green spaces and conservation jobs in England, it is a step in the right direction. Craig Bennett, the chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, welcomed the investment but …
Well, I have taken the huge liberty in publishing this superb photograph on this website. I felt I had to because it’s so wonderfully encapsulates what humankind’s relationship with our animal cousins should be. There is a beautiful tenderness in this interspecies relationship. I have …
Horseshoe crabs have been on the planet for 450 million years. They look truly ancient and they are described as living fossils. As usual humans persecute these animals Are there any animals on this planet that humans leave alone and don’t use and abuse in …
Santa Catalina is a 76 mi² island, 22 miles south-west of Los Angeles in the Pacific Ocean. It’s described as a paradise of soaring mountains and lush grasslands. There are few cars and many gift shops selling bison trinkets because the island is known for …
In a step towards the UK government’s ambition to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030, the government of Tristan da Cunha, a British overseas territory with a population of 245 in the South Atlantic, have decided to ban all fishing and other extractive …
