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UK-registered companies connected to controversial Canadian seal cull
Andrew Wasley
12th May, 2009
The first blows may be struck on Canadian ice, but it's at the checkout that the coup de grace is delivered. Andrew Wasley explores the UK companies profiting from the trade in seal fur more...
Animal Testing: Science or Fiction?
Kathy Archibald
24th March, 2009
MPs, medical professionals and scientists unite in demanding a thorough evaluation of the utility of vivisection. By Kathy Archibald, Science Director of Europeans for Medical Progress more...
Local Hero: Tony Juniper
Dixe Wills
20th March, 2009
To discuss his leap from outsider activist to budding politician I headed for the backstreets of the light-blue university town where he has lived for the past 20 years. He shares his home with his wife, children, springer spaniel and black-and-white cat. Hens scratch contentedly around a coop at the bottom of the garden. more...
If Only They Could Talk
Tony Juniper
3rd January, 2009
The commerce in wild-caught parrots is an animal welfare scandal and conservation catastrophe. A decade and a half after conservationists wrung from the European Parliament a commitment to end the trade, the EU remains the largest importer of parrots in the world. more...
South China’s taste for wildlife
Walter Parham
2nd August, 2008
Consuming endangered wildlife is illegal in China, but it continues on a large scale in the country’s south. Walter Parham reports on a habit that locals just cannot kick – even after the SARS crisis.more...
TV chef raises £87,000 to pay Tesco for shareholders resolution
Peter Clark & Ranajo Dezanett
12th June, 2008
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has reached the target of £86,888 set by Tesco to print and distribute leaflets to its shareholders. more...
In a climate of political chaos Zimbabwe's wildlife is being exterminated
Robin Hammond
1st June, 2008
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Bad news, bears
Nick Kettles
1st March, 2008
From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and Béarn, to the Basque country in the North, both locals and tourists are used to seeing Nationalist slogans daubed in white paint on Pyrenean mountain roads. But now a new clarion call is vying for their attention: Non Ours (no bears) and Mort aux Ours (death to the bears.) more...
Isle of Mull Weavers
Matilda Lee
1st January, 2008
‘I’ve been to a fair number this – this is a fantastic place to be based,’ says the Soil Association’s Lee Holdstock, fresh from a trip to the remote south west corner of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides. more...
EU halts road through Poland
news
2nd August, 2007
The future of one of Europe’s most pristine wildlife sites hangs in the balance as landmark EU legal wrangling continues over a controversial Polish highway more...
EU Limits Tuna Fishing
news
1st March, 2007
The preservation of dwindling tuna fish stocks is set to receive a boost as the EU prepares to introduce cuts in the allowed size of catches, web-based environmental news service ENN reports. more...
EDGing forward
Mark Anslow
10th January, 2007
The Zoological Society of London has today launched a new programme to draw attention to the bizarre, unusual and endangered. more...
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The Elephant Whisperer
Robert King
12th November, 2005
Lek lives in Thialand. She saves Thai elephants. Now, thanks to a clumsy campaign launched by animal rights activists in American all her work is at risk more...Warts and all
Lyall Watson
1st October, 2004
Hoover accepted human society for what it was: rich in resources but nevertheless imperfect, unpigly. And he discovered that a solitary pig is a sad thing, almost as useless as a bee without a hive. more...
Special Report Supermarkets: Chicken
Felicity Lawrence
1st September, 2004
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label. more...
Polio: the virus and the vaccine
Janine Roberts
1st May, 2004
There is a rarely mentioned epidemic raging in the world today, one that is crippling children in more than 100 countries. In extreme cases the disease starts with a fever, which is followed by vomiting, delirium and spreading pain. Within days of being infected, the motor-neurone cells in victims’ spines cease to function properly. Pain intensifies as victims’ limbs are paralysed. In the very worst cases, their chests are also paralysed, which prevents them from breathing. Even when the children recover, the illness often returns in later life. Health authorities say it has no cure. The number of cases increased by over 250 per cent worldwide between 1996 and 2003. It is a disease with a long history and many names. The condition’s official name now is ‘Acute Flaccid Paralysis’ but it was once known as ‘infantile paralysis’/ ‘poliomyelitis’ (polio for short). Some people called it ‘the crippler’.A shot in the dark
Polio is a devastating disease; the preferred method for fighting it is vaccination. Yet there is a mass of historic evidence that suggests it is not caused by a virus but by industrial and agricultural pollution.
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Zoos - 20th century anachronism or biodiversity preservation tool?
Daniel Turner, Dr Miranda F Stevenson B.A., MBA.,
1st March, 2004
Are zoos an essential tool for preserving biodiversity in the 21st century or a Noah's-Ark-style anachronism riddled with woodworm and sinking fast? more...Hoover
Lyall Watson
1st June, 2003
I think that pigs everywhere are dropping semantic pearls before human swine who labour under the delusion that all pigs can do is go ‘oink’ more...
Vivisection: A ‘Moderate’ Proposal
Derrick Jensen
1st February, 2003
The problem with vivisection, argues Derrick Jensen, is that we’re experimenting on the wrong sort of animals. more...
Whale songs drowned out by navy sonars
The Ecologist
1st February, 2003
Navy vs the Whales. They have the most mysterious and beautiful songs in the natural world. But now they are dying, drowned out by the deafening roar of Western navies’ new sonar devices.more...
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