THE CLOCK GOES TICK-TOCK (THERE IS A WAY)
THE CLOCK GOES TICK-TOCK (THERE IS A WAY) by Sharon Bull Our hearts feel like lead,The headlines fill us with dread,It’s the thought of the misery and pain,The increasing conflict,The hurt that we inflictCan only be classed as insane! We fight with each other,We...
The Hunting Fraternity Need Reminding Of The Hunting Act 2004
Apart from the Queen who is the law, if she was to break the law, there isn’t very much that anyone can do about it. The rest of the Royal family aren’t quite on the same level as the Monarch. They have more in common with us regular folk when it comes to laws we need...
Is Lucy the Loneliest elephant in the world?
An account of a single Asian elephant in a zoo in Alberta, Canada sums up the depressing life of a solitary animal. Words by Kristen Warfield: “Every day for Lucy is mostly the same. She stands in her barren concrete enclosure, behind a glass wall, as visitors watch...
Shame on South Africa’s Captive Lion Industry!! (Part Two)
As many as 10,000 lions are bred and kept on South Africa’s lion farms when only between 1,300 – 1,700 adult lions remain in the wild. Today it is estimated that there are only 20,000 lions living in the wild across the whole of Africa. Sadly they are disappearing...
The Plight of Dolphins and Killer Whales In Captivity (Part One)
Who are the people who think it’s acceptable to keep dolphins and killer whales in captivity? I guess it has to be those people who are making a lot of money from keeping them in dolphinariums and marine parks. It’s a broad guess but it has been estimated that between...
Shame on South Africa’s Captive Lion Industry!! (Part One)
“On 17 May 2019, an Amendment to the Animal Improvement Act, 62 of 1998, was issued by the then Department Of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In this amendment, lion, cheetah, rhino and giraffe have been added to the list of ‘farmable animals’, along with almost...
Here we go again…Badger Cull 2019
DEFRA and Natural England appear to have learnt nothing from the previous badger culls!Ministers have approved the addition of 11 new cull areas and reauthorization of the 29 cull areas from last year. Up to 64,000 badgers could be killed this autumn. Last year’s cull...
The Race Is On To Develop The First Commercial Octopus Farm
You’ve gotta love an octopus! Octopuses are the most fascinating and intriguing creatures you are likely to ever come across. Outwardly they are difficult to describe other than their obvious eight arms. But inwardly they are renowned for their high intelligence, blue...
The Inglorious Twelfth
Grouse shooting has to be banned in the UK!The shooting fraternity has kept themselves back in the shadows since hunting was banned at the beginning of 2005. By doing so they seemed to have been left alone.Well not quite but it seems that fox hunting has been more to...
Fox Cubbing
Allowing the hunt’s hounds to kill defenceless fox cubs is to ‘give them a taste of blood’!That’s it in a nutshell. The vile activity that fox hunting wants to keep covered up and out of sight. It’s been going on since hunting foxes began. The hunts meet...