The regent honeyeater is a very attractive Australian songbird. For thousands of years and for generation after generation they have sung beautifully to attract females. The males learn their song from older, adult males. Because there are so few honeyeaters … Continue reading →
The great auk was persecuted to extinction by humankind many years ago. Excessive hunting was the main cause and it is said that the last great auk living on the British Isles was stoned to death. The bird became extinct … Continue reading →
Keeping monkeys as pets causes suffering for the animals and it endangers their survival in the wild. The UK government is preparing to announce that anybody who buys, sells and breeds pet monkeys will face a significant fine. In the … Continue reading →
The charity Rewilding Britain has advised that the UK habitats of many wild species need to be joined up to allow them to travel north by up to 3 miles per year because of global warming. Travelling north allows them … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: Sir David Attenborough is supporting a campaign by more than 100 conservation groups to get countries to commit, in total, £390 billion ($500 billion) annually to protect wildlife. Today there is a virtual UN biodiversity summit meeting. … Continue reading →
Plug-in hybrid cars are meant to have a much reduced level of carbon dioxide emissions compared to petrol or diesel cars. It is said they that produce about one third less CO2. They also produce less nitrous oxide and particulates … Continue reading →
The list of 20 UN targets set 10 years ago to protect wildlife are largely unmet. The targets included reducing habitat loss, preventing harmful pollution, preventing wildlife extinctions, protecting land and sea and managing sustainable fish stocks. The UN has … Continue reading →
There was a big questionmark hanging over the extinction of the woolly rhino which it is believed died out about 14,000 years ago. That time was about 15,000 years after humans first saw them. Researchers, using mitochondrial DNA sequencing thanks … Continue reading →
A global study by the National Geographic Society and Wyss Foundation concluded that the world should meet a UN proposal to double the area of protected land and quadruple the area of protected sea. The goal would be to protect … Continue reading →
The media, today, is expressing an exasperation at the inability of humans to change the course that they are on which is a long-term acute mismanagement and misuse of the planet leading to what is described as the sixth mass … Continue reading →
Here are 2 books recommended by Chris Packham which he says will save lives. If he says so I believe him. He means the lives of animals as well as human lives.
Continue reading →Mexico is endangering the survival of the most species (compared to other countries) because of their uncontrolled human population growth. We have a list of the top ten countries containing the most endangered species. For me, it means that these … Continue reading →
No words are needed. What have we done? What are we doing? When will we stop? Why are we destroying the planet we depend on for our lives? Despair, really. Just despair. We must hate ourselves.
Continue reading →I’m referring to the schoolchildren’s strike to force the adults of this world, by which I mean the politicians and senior businessmen, to do something tangible and quickly about climate change. I’m sure a lot of people will dismiss what … Continue reading →
A lecturer of Korean at Oxford, Dr. Young-hae Chi, believes that aliens are on the planet already and they are breeding with humans to create a hybrid species. He believes that they will save the planet because they are of … Continue reading →
The killer whales of the Salish Sea, which lies between mainland Washington state and Vancouver Island, are sometimes skinny. They are undernourished, underfed and starving. They have “peanut heads” and they suffer an increased chance of dying. And they are … Continue reading →
It is an extraordinary thought; humans are literally eating large mammals to extinction. What I mean is that we are using these mammals as sources of food and were doing it to such an extent that 60% of large mammals … Continue reading →
