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....
28 March, 2022
Big Table Round Up – March 2022
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 bomb’ in Australia to the importance of understanding what goes into pet food.
Please do catch up on the articles, blogs and extensive social media support for all these stories, plus so much more.
Opinion Articles
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....
14 March, 2022
Horrific polar bear attack on hiker in Canada should be cause for concern much closer to home
Matt Dyer, a 49-year-old legal attorney from Maine, had been asleep in his tent when the polar bear attacked. He opened his eyes to see the bear’s forelegs looming over him, silhouetted against the light of the bright moon....
28 February, 2022
What my dog taught me about life can help Britain regain its status as a nation of true animal lovers
Sometimes I think my dog knows me better than I know myself....
14 February, 2022
Wolves and rewilding: Reactions to the reintroduction of this ‘apex predator’ speak volumes
A crowd of 100 people or more had gathered in the Hayden Valley of Yellowstone National Park, USA....
31 January, 2022
Blogs
Social Media
Top Tweet with 126K Impressions
These are dark days for the world and humanity #UkraineCrisis
But here is a little reminder of the amazing beauty and wonderful colour that does exist in our world courtesy of a Lilac-Breasted Roller (Coracias caudatus) in Southern Africa
Photo by Mohammed Jinnah #NatureBeauty pic.twitter.com/GUzGYLdy8B— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) March 4, 2022
Top Media Tweet with 54.1K impressions
Bees are an essential & beautiful life force for our food & world
They are disappearing at an alarming rate due to intensive farming, pesticides & habitat loss
We must protect all #nature all #species
Take a stand for #EarthHour today for #Bees #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #Life pic.twitter.com/rtUEmyaB7T
— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) March 26, 2022
Top Facebook Post for Mothers Day with 1.3K reach
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