I have generalised in the title but I want to make the point that the adult humans of this planet through their carelessness and lack of foresight have led children down the path of global warming which is making them depressed. It is the children …
It is believed that this is the first case of a person ending their life because of a despondency about climate change. The Telegraph reports that 19 year old Greenpeace activist, Theo Khelfoune Ferreras, a film student from Walthamstow, took his life because of the …
The Times reports that local people in Galicia in north-west Spain believe that the noise of wind turbines is jeopardising the survival of their ancestral wild horses. In this beautiful, wild and open yet windy landscape, a wild horse herd belongs to a village, Sabucedo. …
NEWS AND COMMENT-CAPE TOWN: As I understand this, this is a disturbing example of humankind’s effect on wild animal behaviour through their behaviour. That is not how the story is presented but it is how I read the story. Along the coast off Cape Town, …
Thor the walrus has become quite famous in the UK. Believed to be between 3-5 years old he’s been spotted at various locations on the UK coast and even the coast of the European continent. He appears to have been travelling around Europe rather than …
There is a excellent letter in The Times today (3rd Jan, 2023) written by Brian Aldred. He is not, as far as I know, anybody special in terms of celebrity but a person like you and me who is concerned about human population growth and …
The good news for conservationists and people who don’t see economic growth as the only way to live, is that we have woken up to reports that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won the presidential election in Brazil. Apparently, it was razor tight. With …
Two wildlife conservation stories are circulating the news media at present which I’ve picked up and they appear to be linked. They concern two lakes. One is in China (Poyang Lake) and the other in Kenya (Lake Bogoria). Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in …
NEWS AND COMMENT: The World Wildlife Fund-UK’s Living Planet Report 2022 makes shocking reading. The headline is that humans have wiped out almost 70% of animal populations in about half a century. This is the equivalent of losing the combined total of all the people …
