As far as I know King Charles III wore a genuine bearskin hat at trooping the colour today (17th June 2023) as he led the way on his black horse (Canadian steed ‘Noble’). If so, he is doing his role as the monarch a disservice. …
The current plans to de-extinct and re-wild the dodo calls into question the motivation. And there are ethical issues as well. I always think that if humankind wants to de-extinct species such as the dodo or the Tasmanian tiger or indeed the woolly mammoth, it …
This is a very cute and yet at the same time disturbing video. It’s cute because a young, subadult wild bear high-fives a motorist who parked up to observe them on the road. I don’t know where it was filmed; possibly America. It looks as …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I don’t think anybody has said it but when I read the story about a French hunter who shot a British guy living in France because the hunter thought that he was shooting a boar, I wonder whether he did it deliberately …
Investigators from the League Against Cruel Sports filmed two hunters from the Devon and Somerset Staghounds using whips to force a red deer stag to carry on running to allow them to continue having their fun before shooting the animal. In defence, when the Countryside …
The turtle dove population has declined by 78 percent between 1980 and 2015 due to sport hunting, shrinking habitat and disease (src: The Times). They spend two thirds of the year in sub-Saharan West Africa and the remainder of the year in their European breeding …
The Earl of Hopetoun is Andrew Hope. His family has owned the Leadhills estate of 19,500 acres for 300 years. It is farmland and moorland across South Lancashire. It has a reputation, it is reported in The Times, as an alleged wildlife crime hotspot. The …
