March Big Table Round Up Blog
This Roundup blog includes all the news and animal welfare activity from February and March. From the importance of the Animal Sentience Bill in the UK to our attitudes to wolves, from polar bears to climate change, and from the 'rain
Pet food: We love our animal companions, but what are we feeding them?
Whichever way we look at it, we love our pets, and rightly so. They provide us with companionship, affection, a reason to go for that walk.
Food Firms too slow to implement animal welfare improvements
Food firms are too slow in delivering meaningful animal welfare improvements, according to the tenth annual Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW) report.
CELEBRATING BRITAIN’S ‘RAINFOREST’ RIVERS: WHAT WATER VOLES TELL US ABOUT OUR FUTURE HEALTH
Some of the best things in nature are understated. Take the chalk-streams of England, for example. These fragile river systems meander quietly through undulating countryside before disappearing into the sea. Beloved by fishermen down the ages, chalk-streams are fascinating river
Australia: ‘It’s raining, it’s pouring, the PM is snoring’
What the 'rain bomb' in Australia tells us about our world. Three weeks ago, as Russia invaded Ukraine, a tragedy of a different sort was rocking Australia, as a 'rain bomb' hit New South Wales and Queensland.
England’s babbling chalk streams are witnessing a staggering decline in water voles
Some of the best things in nature are understated. Take the chalk-streams of England, for example. These fragile river systems meander quietly through undulating countryside before disappearing into the sea.
IN SOLIDARITY AND WITH HOPE IN OUR HEARTS
These are deeply chilling times. As we watch the nightmare darken in Ukraine, with increasing scenes of destruction and devastation, our hearts go out to everyone affected. Like me, at times you may be feeling helpless, perhaps even without hope.
What Do Polar Bears Tell Us About Our Own Future?
Night-time and a piercing scream tore into the silence of the Arctic wilderness. Matt Dyer, a 49-year-old legal attorney from Maine, had been asleep in his tent when the polar bear attacked.
BRINGING LANDSCAPES BURSTING TO LIFE THE NATURE-FRIENDLY WAY
When you close your eyes and imagine where the very best food comes from, what does it look like? In my experience, most people imagine rolling pastures sprinkled with cattle or sheep grazing under the warmth of the sun; orchards with