Compassionate World

This week, here at Compassion in World Farming, we’ve been preparing to recognise and celebrate companies taking action to improve farm animal welfare. Yesterday, I was thrilled to introduce our 11th annual Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards at Les Salons

Today, Thursday 14th June, many thousands of people, across 35 countries, from Brazil to Australia and from Ireland to Turkey are coming together in an outpouring of compassion for the animals who suffer during long distance transport.

Dr Sylvia Earle, has been an inspiration to me for many years and is the ground-breaking author of  The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Oceans Are One.  She is a marine biologist, explorer, lecturer and founder of Mission

This blog is based on my recent meeting with Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, for my Big Table podcast.

This week I spoke at the Hay Festival 2018 and was asked to write about my experience.  This blog first appeared on the Hay website 30th May 2018

We all love bees and it appears none more so than the British. The insects have been identified as the number one endangered species that Britons would save. 

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a farming system that, instead of being a driver of wildlife decline, actually started to put things back? That started to regenerate the soil naturally? That started to bring back birds, bees and

Penguins are one of the most popular species on our planet, thanks in part to their fascinating communities and charming personalities.

Earth Day this Sunday 22nd April, will highlight how humanity is threatening the survival of the planet and draw attention to the need for urgent change.

As the sun rises on another World Health Day this Saturday, we often choose to look within and focus on the small changes we can make to improve our own health and wellbeing. We give ourselves goals, ‘I must go