From a photograph of the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il with “devil eyes”, to a picture showing a depressed Chris Huhne with the slogan “Should have walked!”, these are not your typical “save the world” posters.
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Nature
Feb 282013
More than 5,000 badgers will be slaughtered in the West Country after the Government approved licences for culls to commence in June this year.
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Controversial nerve-agent pesticides widely linked to decline in bees around the world should be banned, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says today.
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Feb 072013
Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon since 2004, it has been revealed.
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Britain’s National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU), which leads the fight against the burgeoning illegal wildlife trade, may be facing the axe.
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In most of the country’s bird species, the loss of one individual doesn’t count for much. For the hen harrier, it is a blow that could spell the end of England’s fragile population of one of our most powerful and charismatic birds of prey.
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Dec 052012
The South of England can expect its first snowfall of the winter with motorists warned of treacherous driving conditions today.
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Dec 022012
While Australia’s northern hairy-nosed wombat may be one of the world’s most endangered mammals, its southern cousin has, by comparison, thrived. But now a food shortage – and an invasion of toxic plants – has killed thousands of southern wombats, prompting fears of a local extinction.
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Oct 282012
Ministers were warned by the Forestry Commission that funding cuts would leave them with “no capacity to deal with costs of disease or other calamity” months before devastating ash dieback was found in Britain, it emerged last night.
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Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has defended the controversial plan for a badger cull to tackle bovine TB, warning that the disease would cost the taxpayer £1 billion unless action was taken.
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