Compassion at the heart of a new breed of ‘animal welfare environmentalists’ The world received a timely reminder of the perilous state of nature recently, with the launch of a new Global Assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services by the intergovernmental panel, IPBES....
I have always been entranced by Mother Nature ever since I was a very young boy and my mother brought me my first book of Birds. I used to watch the birds that visited our garden and would marvel at their different forms, colours, feathers...
I was privileged to join legendary naturalist and broadcaster, Chris Packham in London’s Berkeley Square this week at a pop-up conservation event to celebrate the song of the Nightingale. The association between bird and place was immortalised by the romantic British popular song, A Nightingale...
ROSEMARY MARSHALL - August 29th 1941 - March 28th 2019 I first met Rosemary thirty years ago. She was a well-established area contact for Compassion in World Farming. I was the new campaigns assistant. It was at a gathering of our army of area contacts in London...
In this guest blog Duncan Williamson, Head of International Policy for Compassion in World Farming reflects on report of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change published yesterday....
This Easter Monday, 22nd April, we celebrate Earth Day. It is a hugely important day, a global event with more than 1 billion people across 192 countries expected to take part....
“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages” This is a quote from Jacques Deval, the French playwright, screenwriter and film director. Perhaps he should have added ‘tiny, barren cages’!...
Ahead of the famous Oxford Literary Festival this weekend, Graham Harvey, is my guest blogger for this week. Famed award winning writer of the Archers Radio 4 drama series and country lover, Graham unveils a new storyline for rural Britain....
My research in California showed me that one of the biggest things we can do to preserve water, now and into the future, is to stop factory farming, a major driver of water misuse worldwide....
Amongst the swirling flags, meetings and conversations that make up the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), I spent the last days delivering the message that factory farming is the enemy of the natural world....