The lives of these young Palestine Action activists have been ruined by university. They were radicalised to the point of madness on campus and now they’re facing years in jail. The whole thing is an utter tragedy and a scary indictment of our universities.

Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk 💪

Torturing wildlife is a way of life for many people in the American West.

The difference in production costs between a dozen cage-free eggs and a dozen normal eggs is 19 cents. But the cage-free eggs can cost nearly $2 more. Big supermarkets use cage-free as a price discrimination tool - targeting them to richer customers who are willing to pay more. Poorer customers, even if they care a lot about animal welfare, end up buying the normal eggs. But when states pass laws banning caged eggs, the markup disappears.

Congrats @Kaulofthewilduk 🙌💚

A big sigh of relief - after much uncertainty, the Natural History GCSE has finally been given the green light by the Government. It is arguably *the* most impactful opportunity we have to teach my generation how to protect, restore and reconnect our ecosystems for the future.

"Foxes killed my chickens" isn't an argument against foxes. It's an argument against your coop. A fox being a fox isn't a moral failing. A faulty coop is the problem.

It’s great to see shady factory pig farming interests and their political sponsors in Denmark starting to feel the heat from the Danish electorate. Voters everywhere tend not to approve of extreme, prolonged animal cruelty, even for slightly cheaper meat.

A family of barn owls eats around 1,000 rodents a year, some studies say up to 3,000. When we put out rodent poison, the owls eat the poisoned mice, and they die too. Without the predators, the mice come back worse. Skip the rat poison, put up an owl box.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Craig Bennett, CEO of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. We spoke about the future of nature in Britain, the progress being made, and why there’s still plenty of reason for hope. Out now wherever you get your podcasts. @WildlifeTrusts

'It is so impressive in scope it almost defies description': The bold, 200-year vision to repair the harm that man has inflicted on the Scottish Highlands’ countrylife.co.uk/travel/bri…

South Africa is well on the way to eradicating cheetahs outside of protected areas.

I get asked a lot: why are garden centers allowed to sell invasive plants? You read that some shrub or vine is an ecological wrecking ball, then you walk into a garden center and there it is for sale, with a cheerful little plant tag. How is that legal? Most of the time, it just is. A recent study found that 61% of the plants identified as invasive in the US are still sold through the plant trade. That includes plants on state regulated lists, and even 20% of the federal noxious weeds that are illegal to sell anywhere in the country. So why is it still legal? There's no blanket federal ban on invasives. Federal law only covers plants crossing state lines, so anything grown and sold inside a state is that state's call, which leaves a checkerboard: banned on one side of a state line, stocked on the other. State lists tend to be outdated, aimed at farm weeds instead of the ornamentals that wreck forests, and are barely enforced. Underneath all of it is a profitable industry, and states don't like banning a profitable product. Even when a state does crack down, it cushions the growers. Indiana's invasive-plant rule gave nurseries a full extra year to keep selling their existing stock of banned plants, on purpose, to soften the economic hit. The plant's a known menace, but the inventory is worth money, so the register keeps ringing. Which unfortunately means it falls to us. Three things actually move the needle: 1. Tell your state and local officials you want these plants banned, because those lists are political and what constituents say matters. 2. Ask your garden center to stop stocking them, because retailers drop plants when enough customers push. 3. Stop buying non-native ornamentals in the first place. Plant natives instead. A plant nobody buys is a plant they stop growing.

You think politics is bad now, just wait until the median voter has never read a book

This is supposed to make you hate white-tailed eagles..

How is this in any way tolerable?

Not even the worst part of that story. This farmer wants compo (ie other taxpayers’ money) because he’s trying to farm in the middle of one of Europe’s largest wetlands… & it’s too wet.