California has recently enacted a groundbreaking law that bans both the farming and sale of farmed octopus products. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 27, 2024, this legislation, known as the Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act, aims to address ethical and environmental concerns …
On the Isle of Man and in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland you can take out ‘seagull insurance’ when you’re eating at a food outlet. Sounds strange? This is because seagulls have become enormous pests to paying customers at The Cheesy Toast Shack, a takeaway in …
The title is no understatement. For conservationists it is sickening. How much cocaine is being snorted by humans across the planet daily? We don’t know but we do know that the number of people dying from cocaine poisoning in the United States has been steadily …
The beauty of Geat Britain is in its landscape and in its nature; the wildlife. This green and pleasant land is so often no longer green and pleasant. And the UK government has done far too little to protect the UK’s wildlife. We are in …
Well, what do you make of these photos? They are shocking and they are no doubt meant to shock. They are excellent quality and very clever because I believe that they are excellent examples of photo-editing. Their validity is helped by the fact that it …
According to the IUCN Red List of threatened species, the Yangtze sturgeon is extinct in the wild. They blandly state that the number of mature individuals in the wild is zero (yes, 0). It is not often you see that number and it is obviously …
NEWS AND COMMENT: There has been a spate of news media stories about untreated sewage being discharged into the sea against the responsibilities of the privately owned water companies whose job it is to ensure that wastewater does not pollute the environment. This sort of …
Nigeria is too poor to keep the Osun River pure. Nigeria’s Osun River has, for many years, attracted people from far away as America to drink its pure waters. Beyoncé used the river as inspiration for her 2016 album Lemonade. She became Osun, the Yoruba …
This is an impressive view of an army of Portuguese trying to push a beached sperm whale near Lisbon Portugal back into deep water. The suggestion is that the whale’s inability to make deep dives caused by barotrauma (exploded ear drums) might have caused this …
