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Gina Bates

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The state of nature: 41 percent of UK species have declined since 1970s

A new report has found that the UK’s wildlife is continuing to crash, with hundreds of species now at risk of disappearing from our shores altogether.
Over the past 50 years, urbanisation, agriculture, pollution and climate change have all caused the nation’s plants and animals to dwindle – a trend that has continued unabated within the last decade despite efforts to reverse these losses.

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30 January 2021
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A quarter of all known bee species haven’t been seen since the 1990s

The number of bee species recorded worldwide has been sharply decreasing since the 1990s.
Eduardo Zattara and Marcelo Aizen at the National University of Comahue in Argentina analysed how many wild bee species are observed each year as recorded in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility – a publicly available platform where researchers and citizens can record sightings of bee species.

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30 January 2021
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THE PLANT INITIATIVE

Plants are aware and intelligent beings as demonstrated by recent scientific findings. Yet, plants typically continue to be treated as mere objects for use. In response, The Plant Initiative was started to encourage ethical behavior toward plants and to support development of an effective movement toward this goal.

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30 January 2021
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OCEAN POLLUTION: 11 FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW

So how does trash get into the ocean? It’s dumped, pumped, spilled, leaked and even washed out with our laundry. Each year, we expose the world’s waterways to an increasing variety of pollutants — plastic debris, chemical runoff, crude oil and more.

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29 January 2021
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Speciesism Philosophy

Speciesism, in applied ethics and the philosophy of animal rights, the practice of treating members of one species as morally more important than members of other species; also, the belief that this practice is justified.

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28 January 2021
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UN report: Pollution from planned fossil fuel production would overshoot Paris climate goals

In the 2015 international Paris Climate Agreement, nearly every country [see editor’s note] agreed to try and limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and preferably closer to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures. Achieving these goals will require dramatic changes, as the world has already warmed 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), and temperatures, fossil fuel consumption, and carbon pollution all are continuing to rise.

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28 January 2021
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Winter Shelter for the #53pigs

The global vegan community came together en masse to fund the building of a winter shelter for 53 pigs and their piglets rescued from an illegal slaughter house and hell hole pig farm.

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18 December 2020
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First Ever Veganic Nut Plantation in the Scottish Highlands

The dream is to create a new system of how we produce food and care for the land under Highland Veganics at Badarach Croft. Veganic farming removes the exploitation of sentient beings used for food and their manure. Badarach Croft has in total approximately 180 acres. 100 acres of common grazing and 80 acres of croft land. The plan is to apportion the common grazing and place into a native reforest scheme and the croft land to be partially rewilded and partially used to grow plant proteins.

February 2020 saw the plantation of the first mixed cobnut orchards ever to be planted in the Scottish Highlands.

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29 June 2020