Great apes are our closest relatives, and thankfully we have gone beyond dressing up chimpanzees to ‘take tea’ for TV adverts, but many still are kidnapped from their parents (chimp stay with their mums for around 8 years) and often have their teeth taken out, to provide ‘entertainment’ either for photos or in film and…
safeguarding habitats (for sleepy dormice)
Julia Crossland Known for their large black eyes and long black whiskers, dormice are rarely seen but leave telltale signs when they have nibbled hazelnuts (neat round holes in the shells). Like hedgehogs, dormice can be greatly helped by restoring our lost hedgerows, as this is where the main source of their food is. Numbers…
reasons why pigeons deserve our respect
Chantal Kaufmann Pigeons are not ‘rats with wings’, they are incredible creatures that (like seagulls) often get a bad rap, for eating leftover food littered by people, and become very tame (not always a good idea). One of the only species that passes the ‘mirror test’ (they recognise their own reflection), one little boy who…
let’s unite to empower small organic farmers
Get Fair about Farming is a campaign being run by the folks behind Riverford Box Scheme, after learning that nearly half of our fruit and veg farmers are scared their businesses could fail in the next year, and 75% of them say that the behaviour of the big supermarkets are a major cause. They never…