Potato starch plastic The first thing that I would like to mention is that yesterday my Times newspaper came to me partly wrapped up in potato starch plastic. The plastic wrapping looked very attractive and it felt soft and pleasant. I was surprised to read …
The world’s oldest fish species is the Greenland shark. They are described as the oceans’ oldest fish. They can take 150 years to reach sexual maturity and live for up to 4 centuries (400 years) and perhaps longer. In 2016, researchers used radiocarbon dating to …
Here’s some great news for conservationists and animal lovers. Near Minehead, on the Holnicote estate, beavers have built their first dam on Exmoor in more than 400 years. The beavers were released by the National Trust 10 months ago. Wildlife cameras captured them gnawing on …
NEWS AND VIEWS: The Chinese are destroying coral reefs over vast areas in two ways and it is highly distressing. I don’t know how anybody can simply report this without feeling anger. A lot of anger, and a desire to stop it but why isn’t …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The rock musician, Kerr Sharpe-Young, 28, of Blistered Fingers has discovered a 3 million-year-old seal fossil in a large boulder while exploring a beach in New Zealand in 2018. He said the large boulder caught his eye before discovering the fossil. It is the first …
At last, after years and years of campaigning, it appears to me that the public are against whaling. The report by the National Geographic website clearly indicates to me that whaling is gradually fading away which is amazing news for animal advocates. I can hardly …
