From news on Octopus farming, Ban Live Export Awareness Day, Danish fishermen and Puffins, to why cheap supermarket meat is killing the rainforest, plus a whole lot more…

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Opinion Articles

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  Will our children heal the world, and will we allow them to?
  Sitting on a child’s bed are rows of brightly coloured animals. A blue lizard. A golden lion alongside a purple monkey.
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  Penguins Are Key Indicators of the Ocean’s Health
  In Betty’s Bay, South Africa, one of the world’s wildlife celebrities, an African penguin, was busy shaking herself free from the sea. 
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  How we make food is insane — a conversation with animal advocate and author Philip Lymbery
  For Philip Lymbery, the author of ‘Farmageddon’, ‘The Dead Zone’ and ‘Sixty Harvests Left’, we have two choices: change how we feed ourselves or prepare for extinction.
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  Danish fishermen are posing a new threat to Scotland’s dwindling population of puffins
  A ban on commercial fishing for sandeels – on which puffins depend – is being challenged by the European Union
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  As My Octopus Teacher showed, these creatures are too intelligent to be farmed
  The mind of an octopus can be compared to a three-year-old child’s. Are we really going to trap them in barren tanks of water while they await slaughter for food?
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  Cheap supermarket meat is killing the rainforest & driving people like Osvalinda from their homes
  Smallholders like the late Osvalinda Pereira face a campaign of deadly threats and harassment from big companies that produce feed for animals in Europe and China

Blogs

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  My life on a legendary soap
  I’ve known Graham Harvey for many years and long admired his gift for spotting pioneers long before others do
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  WHAT BIG CHICKEN DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE
  4 A comedian’s quest for answers reveals what lies behind cheap chicken Would you put your health on the line to make a point? Well, comedian Mo Gilligan did just that for his new Netflix documentary Big Chicken. On a… Read more: WHAT BIG CHICKEN DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE
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  WELCOMING COMPASSION’S NEW GLOBAL AMBASSADOR, LEAH GARCES
  I am pleased to announce the return of Leah Garcés to Compassion in World Farming as our Global Ambassador. 
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  WHEN THE MARSH HARRIERS DISAPPEARED
  How This Year’s Record-breaking Summer Has Taken More Than Rain

Social Media Top Three Tweets –

The Top tweet was ‘Calf rammed repeatedly by police’

Next it was ‘Please support Ban Live Exports Awareness Day’

And thirdly, ‘End this horror – sea in Faroe Islands turns red as 138 pilot whales slaughtered’