We need to remove barriers women face when trying to escape domestic abuse.
Sometimes abusers coerce their partners to stay by threatening to harm their pets.
@DogsTrust run a vital fostering service so women do not have to give up their pets in order to find a new home
This is horrific. According to the Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index, the UK ranks 189th out of 240 countries and territories for how intact its nature and biodiversity remain.
policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/…
Remember the salmon industry told us that “larger freshwater smolts” would be the answer to combat mortality at sea?
These larger smolts have heart abnormalities, skeletal deformities and nephrocalcinosis.
salmonbusiness.com/nofima-hi…
🚨 HISTORIC NEWS 🚨
Julie, Portugal’s last circus elephant, is being rehomed to a sanctuary, officially ending wild animals in circuses in Portugal. 🐘✨
This is what real progress looks like. 🐾
#StopCircusCruelty#CircusWithoutAnimals
ALT Elephant Julie with text: "Breaking news: Julie, Portugal's last circus elephant, moves to sanctuary. No more wild animals in Portugal's circuses."
Ireland
‘Greyhound Action Ireland is reporting that more than six out of ten greyhounds born in 2021 and 2022 - who have been retired from racing - are now DEAD.’
Over 80% of greyhounds racing in England are bred in Ireland.
#bangreyhoundracing#petsnotbets
Mass killing of greyhounds continuing in Ireland’s cruel greyhound racing industry • “The killing of dogs on an industrial scale”: 5,960 greyhounds born in 2021/2022 and retired from racing are now DEAD banbloodsports.wordpress.com…#Ireland#BanGreyhoundRacing
Ah the old lie "nationalisation will cost billions".
James Murry @jamesmurray_ldn you just told Justin Web @JustinOnWeb on the Today programme @BBCr4today that nationalising the water industry "costs huge amounts of money".
I challenge you sir, prove it, prove a single word of it and if you can't or won't then stop repeating the lie for that's what it is, a lie.
Two-year-old “Pulchritudinous” had a seizure after her Ballarat race this week. She had collapsed in December, suffering Post-Exercise Distress Syndrome (PEDS). Raced five times in April. Finally retired. Shouldn’t have raced.