Whipsnade zoo had three bears. A tree trunk blew over, allowing two of them to climb into the neighbouring enclosure that contained boar.
Whipsnade zoo shoots two Bears after they escape
Killer whale sighting off Cornwall
John Coe (an old and very well known killer whale) and Aquarius, have been sighted off the coast of Cornwall.
A rare sighting in the south of the UK, this British pod of Orca is heavily endangered. With no calves sighted since 1990 the sightings are only likely to get rarer still.
One of the main causes, is human pollution, due to chemicals such as PCB that wash into the seas of the UK. These can lead to poor health and infertility in the animals in our waters.
This video clip above comes from ITV news, and is hosted on youtube
The UK government banned ivory selling so why are they delaying implementing
Ivory, sometimes known as white gold is a real problem. Often valued as much as gold, the rewards for killing a wild elephant can amount too many decades, sometimes the equivalent of a lifetime’s wage to a poor African or Indian.Â
In the UK the government has mandated waste food collection by 2023 – but no funding
A significant percentage of UK household waste is waste food.
Now it is true that better planning, better reuse can greatly reduce this. However only food that is uncooked can be put in a compost heap. The UK produces about 5 million tonnes of food waste year. If this was collected it could reduce emissions dramatically, as well as potentially creating significant biogas for power generation.
Continue reading “In the UK the government has mandated waste food collection by 2023 – but no funding”In the UK the government has mandated waste food collection by 2023 – but no funding
A significant percentage of UK household waste is waste food.
Now it is true that better planning, better reuse can greatly reduce this. However only food that is uncooked can be put in a compost heap. The UK produces about 5 million tonnes of food waste year. If this was collected it could reduce emissions dramatically, as well as potentially creating significant biogas for power generation.
Continue reading “In the UK the government has mandated waste food collection by 2023 – but no funding”The UK sorts our rubbish at higher rates than anywhere else in the world, so why is so much being incinerated
In the UK we have incredibly stringent rules on recycling. Indeed, there are regular suggestions about giving people smaller bins so that we send less rubbish to the dump.
If this is the case, why is so much of our recycling simply being burned?
Continue reading “The UK sorts our rubbish at higher rates than anywhere else in the world, so why is so much being incinerated”After foolish coal mine is cancelled MPs are angry
I wrote about a month ago about a deep coal mine in Cumbria that was green-lit. Thankfully this foolish plan was reversed.
At a time when many fossil fuel extraction locations around the world will have to stop working without exhausting the resource, the idea of starting a new one is ridiculous. Particularly stupid is to decide to do this, the year that the UK is to host a climate conference – with the purpose of agreeing more cuts.
Continue reading “After foolish coal mine is cancelled MPs are angry”The UK has had much positive impact on conservation around the world, so why keep culling badgers despite the evidence?
Research done in the UK though not published (despite being completed 2 years ago) clearly shows that badgers are highly unlikely to infect cattle.
Wildcats set to return to southern England 150 years since their extinction in England and Wales
Once common across the whole of the UK, they were hunted to extinction. Currently, just a handful remain in Scotland. While interbreeding between wildcats and feral domestic cats is normally rare, in the current situation feral cats outnumber wildcats 1000 to one, and as such the wildcat is essentially extinct.
The farmer who is looking to reintroduce them, currently has 6 pairs, which he is hoping to increase to 150 individuals and to start reintroducing perhaps as early as next year.
Continue reading “Wildcats set to return to southern England 150 years since their extinction in England and Wales”Pine martens released near Bangor, Wales
Despite the fact that British citizens have done much good work towards to conservation of wildlife and wilderness in the world, we have been less successful in the UK. Having largely eradicated a small arboreal predator from much of the UK, we then decided to introduce the grey squirrel from the USA.
Spending more time on the ground, and being far less agile than their red smaller cousins, grey squirrels cannot coexist with pine martens.
Continue reading “Pine martens released near Bangor, Wales”
