A Tribute To Our Faithful Companion, Duke – December 2011 – 20th August 2023
Duke came to us as a tiny rescue pup of ten weeks old. He’d been abandoned in a park with his sister on a cold winter’s day. The heroic folks at South East Dog Rescue in Kent took them in
How food poverty is being fuelled by our obsession with factory-farmed meat
Nearly 800 million people are going hungry even though there is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone
Why Government Must Act to Stop the Ticking Timebomb That Is Bird Flu
Highly pathogenic Bird flu continues to rage through poultry farms and wild birds alike. The virus has already proved adept at jumping the species barrier, spilling over from birds into mammals such as otters, foxes, sea lions, and even domestic
Why government must act to stop ticking timebomb that is bird flu
Highly pathogenic Bird flu continues to rage through poultry farms and wild birds alike.
Fixing Our Broken Food System Will Take Urgent Action, Not Least In Ending Industrial Animal Agriculture
Why We Should All Get Behind the UN’s Call for Food System Transformation
Why Rome Burning In The Summer Heat Means Fiddling With Food Has To Stop
Boy, was it hot in Rome! In July, front-page news was the weather: ‘Rome hits record high in European heatwave’, was one such headline. In sharp contrast to the exceptionally wet July in Britain where Scotland’s rain was 50
Have a heart for hard-pressed chalk streams
Some of the best things in nature are understated – take the chalk streams of England, for example. These fragile river systems meander quietly through undulating countryside before disappearing into the sea.
Will England allow its iconic and rare chalk stream habitats to be trashed by pollution?
Like the Scottish uplands, England’s chalk streams have become an iconic destination for many countryside lovers
Insect Farming Isn’t Going to Save the Planet
Raising animals intensively for food is the biggest source of animal cruelty on the planet. It also happens to be a major emitter of greenhouse gases, responsible for up to 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
How our gardens can become sanctuaries for wildlife
A garden left to rewild Amongst the many celebrations of the coronation of King Charles III, one that particularly caught my eye was about wildlife-friendly gardening. Paying tribute to the monarch’s longstanding commitment to the natural world, the Coronation Gardens for