Standing up for Nature
Mark writes: I’ve never seen a wild boar in the UK – my sightings have all been in France and Spain. I was once told, in France, and in French but I think i got the right end of the stick, that the modern equivalent of pig-sticking (hunting boars with lances on horseback) involved…
Mark writes: Ralph’s cartoon reminds me of a speech by Robert Kennedy as follows: University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 ‘Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product – if we judge the United States of America by that – that Gross National Product counts air…
And this is a passage from Chapter 7 of ‘A Message from Martha‘: ‘If we continue laying waste to the diversity of life and the natural beauty of the planet then we are like vandals going through an art gallery with spray paint and Stanley knives. When we come out the other side, or…
Wild beavers have been filmed in Devon – the first sightings in the wild in England for around 500 years. I wonder where they came from…
Did you hear Nigel Lawson on the Today programme?
To donate to the elephant appeal click on spaceforgiants.org/elephantappeal To raise a voice for raptor protection then sign this e-petition which yesterday passed 9000 signatures. Might it just get to 10000 signatures – thus triggering a response from Defra – by 10:36 on 27 February? If you haven’t signed, then please do. If you…