There is an article in the news today of a mink cull to save the water vole in the UK. One headline reads: “Mink eradication aims to save nature’s ‘good guys’”. The ‘good guys’. Mink are clearly the bad guys then? The water voles are …
NEWS AND OPINION: Britain is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world according to the present government’s environment minister, Steve Reed. The Labour government is freshly in place and they have promised to take a fresh look at the wildlife blueprint for the …
NEWS AND OPINION: This morning, I am shocked at Australia’s further animal abuses but I am unsurprised because they’ve been shooting feral cats and foxes for ages while completely disregarding the cruelty of the practice. And this morning, The Times reports on the shocking cruelty …
In the UK, the American mink is an invasive species. They were brought to the UK for fur farms in the last century. Thousands of them escaped and are now established in the countryside. They threaten some of UK’s native species including the water vole …
Thailand has banned the importation of iguanas because they’ve been imported as pets and then released into the wild where they have procreated and become pests to farmers. This is a non-native species which has become problematic and the government has seen fit to ban …
Ali Hussain, writing for The Sunday Times, is fed up with muntjac deer and he has suggested that they are shot and eaten. But he admits that there are problems with the suggestion. Firstly, he tells us that he bought a home in Norfolk close …
NEWS AND OPINION: The host of the Russian talk show 60 Minutes, Olga Skabeyeva, said: “In the once Great Britain it was revealed today that some restaurants will be serving squirrels in view of the fact that there are plenty of animals in the park, …
Australians are famous for blaming the approximate 2 million feral cats on their continent for the loss of millions of animals of native species primarily marsupials and mammals. A lot of effort has gone into eradicating the ‘pest’ of feral cats from the continent in …
Orkney police are investigating a number of incidents in which stoat traps have been sabotaged. They were destroyed or stolen ostensibly because they have been killing pets. Orkney Native Wildlife Project which is behind the £6 million cull of stoats – because stoats pose an …
