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Pete Smith @ July 18, 2007 # One Comment
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Pete Smith @ July 11, 2007 # 13 Comments
Thousands of badgers will be gassed or snared if the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) gets its way. Until the 1980’s, gassing of badger setts was routinely employed as a means of controlling the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB). British farmers and successive UK governments have long believed that TB was spread by badgers and [...]
Pete Smith @ June 21, 2007 # 5 Comments
Fresh from slagging off the Worldwide Fund For Nature for their hypocritical approach towards waste and recycling, it seemed only fair to give them a bit of credit for some of the good work they do. As part of their ‘One Planet Living‘ campaign, WWF have revived the idea of the ecological footprint, which gives [...]
Pete Smith @ June 16, 2007 # 19 Comments
Recently, The Coffee House has given coverage to Cool Earth, the fundraising initiative to protect the Amazon rainforest (”Cool Earth-revisited“) . While acknowledging the value of the biodiversity within the rainforest, the prime driver for this project is its function as a carbon sink. For between £70 and £100, depending on location, you can ‘buy’ [...]
Pete Smith @ May 26, 2007 # 2 Comments
In recent weeks The Coffee House has reported on the phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) , which has seen large-scale disappearances of honey bees across the US and lately in Europe. If the problem continues to spread, there are massive implications for crop pollination and agricultural production. New theories on the causes of CCD [...]
Pete Smith @ May 9, 2007 # 6 Comments
Last month, The Coffee House reported on the plight of Manor Garden Allotments (‘Olympic’ Allotments Bulldozer Threat). With their century-old site due to be erased by construction work for the 2012 London Olympics, allotment holders have started legal proceedings against the London Development Agency for reneging on promises to provide an alternative site www.lifeisland.org.
Phil Michaels, [...]
Pete Smith @ May 5, 2007 # 3 Comments
U.S. government agencies have abandoned their adherence to the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) by hazing, or driving, nearly all of the buffalo that are currently in Montana back into Yellowstone National Park, including heavily pregnant females and many newborn calves.
The official purpose of the hazing operations is to “limit the risk of brucellosis transmission [...]