Collective Action For Our Oceans: From Nairobi to Stockholm to Lisbon and Onwards
Never has it been more important to protect our Oceans and on World Oceans Day, I am honoured and delighted to introduce Leticia Carvalho from the United Nations Environment Programme as my special blog guest.
Bees, the ambassadors of the natural world, have an important message for humanity
Shadows from a nuclear power station cast jagged shapes across one of Europe’s most impressive spans of shingle.
WAR, WANT AND WASTE
What Conflict in Ukraine Tells Us About Food Shortages? These are deeply chilling times with the war in Ukraine and the enormous impact it is having on all affected.
‘Apocalyptic’ global food crisis is being exacerbated by factory farming of grain-fed animals
These are deeply chilling times with the war in Ukraine and the enormous impact it is having on all affected.
Farming intensification has hit barn owls hard, but it doesn’t have to be this way
High above a hilltop woodland, shapes were dancing in the darkening sky, like giant butterflies. There were about 40 of them, a silent flurry of swirling wings and tails.
WHAT DESTRUCTION OF LOCAL TREES TAUGHT ME ABOUT INVESTING IN OUR ROOTS
I heard it happen before I saw it. The buzzing of chainsaws and clunking of machinery filled the countryside air around me during a walk with my rescue dog, Duke, a few months ago, replacing the gentle hum of nature
EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION: CAN CULTURED MEAT BE A GAME-CHANGER FOR FOOD?
In the wake of the world’s first commercial sale of cultured meat in Singapore, a pioneering symposium was hosted by animal welfare organisations, GAIA and Eurogroup for Animals to ask, should meat from stem-cells be part of a sustainable and animal-friendly food revolution?
Worried about the rainforest? Woodlands much closer to home are being trashed
“You did what? And when we can’t even afford meat?!” exclaimed my mother when my dad told her he had been given too much change – 50p – after a shopping trip.
WHAT HAVE PENGUINS GOT TO DO WITH FACTORY FARMING?
This World Penguin Day, we shine a light on the devastating link between factory farming and the plight of the penguin, and how we can turn around a growing crisis.