The electric vehicle (EV) is, I believe, going out of fashion. And they were very much a fashion statement for a while but the practicalities of owning an EV have dawned on people and, for me, one of the great in practicalities is the fact …
They are sometimes referred to as ‘Nazi raccoons’ because they are an invasive species introduced into Germany under the orders of Herman Goering who was an avid hunter who was appointed the national chief hunter, forestry minister and supreme commissioner for nature conservation in 1934. …
PETA has achieved another success and the world should be thankful to them. The Times reports that the tradition of beheading cockerels at village fairs in parts of western Germany has been stopped after complaints by PETA. I had never heard of the custom before …
GERMANY: A robotic dog has successfully prevented railway graffiti artists in Germany. The German rail operator, Deutsche Bahn has hired a high-tech robotic dog to stop its trains from being covered in graffiti. The dog’s name is Spot. It has a top speed of 7 …
A Hundred Years is a well-known artwork by Damien Hirst which, as it happens, was loved by Francis Bacon, another very well-known artist. It consists of two connecting glass chambers. In the first chamber is a box in which maggots hatch into flies. The flies …
NEWS AND OPINION: I can say with confidence and without any possibility of defamation that an animal testing laboratory in or near Hamburg, Germany called Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) was found to be treating animals barbarically and they were kept in appalling conditions. …
I get the impression that climate change causing hotter summers is having a devastating effect upon the hedgehog population in Europe. I think that you will find that the 10 hottest years on the planet have occurred in the last dozen or so years. It …
NEWS AND VIEWS: The wise words of the title are those of Julia Klöckner, the German government’s Agriculture Minister. I want to give this woman a kiss because (1) she is genuinely concerned about animal welfare and has the power to make some real changes …
A forty-three mile fence has been constructed by Denemark along the border with Germany. It covers the entire length of their border. It is designed to stop wild boar in Germany crossing the border and breeding with farm pigs in Denmark. The Danish export twenty-eight …
