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For all the animal, farming, food and environment news from January and February, please use this great update

From news about nitrogen pollution to the live animal export ban, to bringing back beavers and the growth of mega-farms , plus a whole lot more…

Opinion Articles

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  Nitrogen: Diet and food waste key to tackling one of the great pollutants of our time
  Nitrogen pollution is a large contributor to the triple planetary crisis of climate, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
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  We must halt the invasion of the US mega farm to our countryside
  Old MacDonald has a lot to answer for.
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  Beaver releases: Protesting Cairngorms farmers get things out of proportion
  Beavers and landowners can sometimes come into conflict but these situations can be managed
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  10 years after ‘Farmageddon’ – signs of hope for nature-friendly agriculture
  Emergency approval for a bee-harming pesticide by the UK Government has once again sent shock waves through the countryside
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  Live animal export ban is a resolution the UK Government must keep
  Thirty years after protests against live animal exports, the UK is on the cusp of making a historic change

Blogs

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  FOR THE LOVE OF BEES
  Why Learning to Look More Closely Matters
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  A CENTURY OF SEEING CLEARLY: SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH AT 100
  A tribute to the man who helped us understand the natural world – and why its fate is inseparable from our own
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  FROM THE MOON TO MUD: WHY EARTH’S FINAL FRONTIER LIES BENEATH OUR FEET
  Like on Social: Of all the world records ever broken, perhaps the most striking has just happened beyond our planet. With Artemis II, humans travelled further from Earth than ever before, circling the Moon before splashing down safely back home.… Read more: FROM THE MOON TO MUD: WHY EARTH’S FINAL FRONTIER LIES BENEATH OUR FEET
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  ENDING FACTORY FARMING: THE NEW NATIONAL SECURITY IMPERATIVE
  1 Like on Social: Why our food system has become a hidden threat to global stability What’s the one thing the war in Iran has shown us? – it’s that things happening in faraway places can have a big effect… Read more: ENDING FACTORY FARMING: THE NEW NATIONAL SECURITY IMPERATIVE
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  Why We Should Care About Nature:  A Distinguished Panel at Oxford
  Last weekend, BBC wildlife presenter and animal activist Chris Packham CBE, children’s author and Farms for City Children charity founder Sir Michael Morpurgo, author

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Up and Coming Speaker Events

• 7^th Feb: Residence Palace, Brussels
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Animal Welfare in World Religion  
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, The Politics of Food
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
• 16^th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival: Cultivated Meat – will it help our Future? 
• 11th April: Harting Society 
• 21st May: Farm Animal Congress in Brazil (online) 
• 31st May: Hay Festival, Wales 

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