Farming, fences and settlements from an expanding population on the African continent is threatening the wonderful 1.3 million wildebeest migration and other animals with which we are so familiar in the West. This spectacular event, which has been photographed by many excellent photographers, may be …
There’s been a two-pronged attack on climate change recently. Firstly there is a 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl, Greta Thunberg, whose climate change activism began when she was a solitary figure pursuing a vigil outside Sweden’s parliament in Stockholm. Then last month about 1.4 million students joined …
Briton’s discarded or lost about 10 billion receipts in 2018. This is the equivalent of destroying Sherwood forest, the famous forest occupied by Robin Hood, you may remember. It is staggering to think that annually Britain’s throwaway, in the form of paper receipts, the equivalent …
The words in quotes in the title come from the first African-American female in space (in 1992). Her name is Dr Mae Jemison. She has a macro-perspective of the planet on which we live, which as the journalist Lucy Siegle says, gives us an idea …
An organisation called the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting using data provided by people monitoring the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), tell us that a Zimbabwean whose name is Ron Thomson is responsible for killing around 5000 African elephants single-handedly. This organisation …
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 …
