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World Rainforest Day: Why it Matters

World Rainforest Day raises awareness that these critical spaces are home to half the world’s animal and plant species yet the size of 40 football fields is lost every minute of every day

by Anthea Ayache

The Barbaric Yulin Festival where Dogs are Eaten for ‘Luck’ Starts Today. Why isn’t it Banned?

Julia de Cadenet, CEO of the NoToDogMeat NGO, reveals how China’s depraved meat and dog industry, the annual ‘highlight’ of which is the Yulin festival, is still continuing despite worldwide condemnation and the aftermath of the pandemic. Warning: Graphic Content

by Julia de Cadenet

War Games: How Playing Sports is Helping Ukrainian Children in Refugee Camps

They’ve fled their cities, leaving everything behind, but a UK charity has found a fun way of making the children of the Ukranian-Russian conflict smile again

by Nick Ames

CarrotMobbing: How Conscious Consumers are Making Businesses Greener

In return for pledging to adopt more environmental practises mobs of ethical customers are rewarding businesses by ‘making it rain’ money

by Caitriona McBride

Drought Could Impact over 75 per cent of World Population by 2050

If urgent action is not taken around 700 million people will be displaced by drought by 2030

by Nick Ames

The UAE Turtle Sheikh Saving One of the World’s Oldest Species

Sea turtles, the world’s oldest species are under serious threat but one man – the UAE’s Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi – affectionately known as the Turtle Sheikh, is on a mission to save them

by Anthea Ayache

The Missing Lynx: Big Cats Could Be Released In Britain

They’ve been successfully rewilded in France, Switzerland and Germany so could the once extinct lynx make a return to England to create an eco-tourist big cat territory?

by Sarah Freeman

The Rat Pack: Turning Rodents into First Responders

Rescue rats strapped with microphones in mini backpacks, are being trained to locate earthquake victims stuck under the rubble

by Nick Ames

Arise Again Sir David Attenborough: the environmentalist who has been knighted TWICE

The veteran broadcaster has received a prestigious royal honour for his conservation work nearly 40 years after first being knighted by the Queen

by Karen Pasquali Jones