Puffins face extinction in Scotland with overfishing of their main source of food
Muckle Flugga lighthouse, Shetland, and waves crashed dramatically against the rocks on this, Britain’s most northerly point....
17 January, 2022
Big Table Round Up – January 2021
This Roundup blog includes all the news and animal welfare activity from December and January.
From the importance of our soils on World Soil Day, to a review of Compassion’s work over 2021, and from Philip’s take on Veganuary, to our Patron Dame Joanna Lumley delivering the Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture on 2nd April this year.
Please do catch up on the articles, blogs and extensive social media support for all these stories plus so much more.
Opinion Articles
Veganuary can be just as hedonistic for foodies as the festive season
Veganuary started in 2014 to encourage people positively, inclusively and in a non-hairshirt way, to try a more planet-friendly lifestyle after the excesses of the Christmas holiday season. ...
04 January, 2022
Remember this New Year, protecting animals will protect us all
Accommodation on that cold, drizzly night was an old lighthouse with no WIFI or TV. Furnishings inside fitted the remote historic look, resembling something out of a 1900s period play. ...
27 December, 2021
Rewilding Scotland’s wildernesses should be accompanied by ‘renaturing’ its farms
Some things stay with you forever – like my first ever sighting of a golden eagle. I remember it like yesterday....
13 December, 2021
The super-heroes of soil: Why the world under our feet matters and why it is under threat
How many of us stop to think of the subterranean marvel below us, when we sit on the grass, go for a run or walk in a park? It’s hidden from view and often ignored, yet is fundamental to our survival....
06 December, 2021
Blogs
Social Media
#NatureBeauty
A gentle #nature post for a #Sunday #NatureBeauty pic.twitter.com/bss464ClIP
— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) January 23, 2022
#MotherNature
#SundayThoughts #MotherNature never fails to inspire
Seen here delivering Mothership Cruises at Katmai National Park & Preserve, Alaska
Great #NaturePhotography by Jon Langeland pic.twitter.com/uktEiqXpr5
— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) January 16, 2022
#tragic
Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population
There’s such prejudice against wolves
We invade their habitats & because they follow instinctive behaviours to roam & hunt, we kill them #tragic
Humanity needs to learn to live with nature not against it https://t.co/AYV1jLs9o1— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) January 15, 2022
Speaker Event
Image Credit: Compassion in World Farming / Richard Dunwoody
Dame Joanna Lumley will be sharing the stage with Philip on Saturday 2nd April, to deliver the 2022 Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture.
Joanna will be speaking about ‘The True Meaning of Compassion’ and the event will be held at 12 noon at the prestigious Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
With grateful thanks to the Oxford Literary Festival who will be kindly hosting the event.
If you wish to attend please use this link