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Farmers and vets from the major organisations representing agricultural interests in Britain will present a united front to the incoming government on how they believe cattle diseases, including… Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk This should read ‘representing some of the interested agricultural and veterinary parties’. There are many farmers and vets who don’t ...read more →
Changes in the Arctic Ocean are so profound that the region is entering what amounts to “a new era”, according to Norwegian scientists. Source: www.bbc.co.uk These first signs of significant drops in biomass and biodiversity under thinner winter sea ice may be one of the portents that the sixth great ...read more →
Brian May, Queen guitarist, astrophysicist, badger cull activist, has been on the campaign trail in the West. But he’s for people, not politics. The 67-year-old rock legend has been trying to convince people to use their vote – but in a way that he says would makes democracy work for ...read more →
If you had a savings account that yielded a 10 per cent return, you’d presumably keep adding to that account as much as you could. Our oceans are worth a staggering $24 trillion, yielding a huge $2.5 trillion a year in goods and services, according to our new report published ...read more →
A stock of illegally imported shark fins has been confiscated from one of Britain’s most exclusive Chinese restaurants and destroyed by Trading Standards, following a report in The Independent. Source: www.independent.co.uk
The environment has clearly fallen down David Cameron’s agenda in the past few years with the kind of Husky-hugging scenes he was involved with in the run-up to the last election inconceivable this time round. Source: www.independent.co.uk The environment is not a prominent part of any of the major parties ...read more →
In the marginal seat of Stroud, cullers and ‘huggers’ are vying for supremacy Source: www.thetimes.co.uk Neil Carmichael won’t be getting my vote. I am unimpressed with Neil Carmichael’s genuine commitment to environmental issues. The government FERA labs, where world class field research is carried out into badgers and bovine TB, ...read more →
THE Australian Marine Conservation Society sent a clear message to the Government to improve protection of the Great Barrier Reef or risk irreversible damage. Source: www.themorningbulletin.com.au A global biodiversity asset stands at risk of being exploited for Australian national short term current account profits. Value Nature don’t rip it off.
The two four-year pilot culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire should be completed by trapping the badgers in cages and then shooting them, says the BVA. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk This is not an elegant sight; the veterinary trade body back peddling furiously to save face and reputation. Still a way to go ...read more →
Vets have called for an end to the controlled shooting of badgers in Defra’s two pilot culls in the west of England. The British Veterinary Association (BV Source: www.fwi.co.uk Trapping badgers as part of a cull would be the major part of the culling costs; vaccinating those trapped badgers would ...read more →