Pupils in project to save bees
By Katie Bond
CHILDREN at schools across Swindon have been taking part in projects to help our struggling bee population.
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust has organised the ‘bee friendly’ project with local primary schools supported by MINI Plant Swindon to engage the children with hands-on nature activities, such as planting and growing native wild flowers and nectar plants in ‘bee-beds’ …
Swindon Advertiser – 5:10 pm Monday 13th May 2013
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The meat industry must stop employing reckless drivers
By DAN PADEN
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Most of us – even those of us who eat meat – know that life on a factory farm is no picnic for animals. Chickens are crammed together with thousands of others inside dark sheds that reek of ammonia. Piglets are castrated without being given any painkillers. Terrified calves are torn away from their mothers within hours of birth …
Kansas City Star – Monday 13th May 2013
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WWF calls on GFCM to recover Mediterranean fish stocks
As the organisation opens its annual meeting in Croatia, WWF has called on the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) to urgently adopt a first set of comprehensive management plans, in particular in the Adriatic, to guarantee the sustainable exploitation of key Mediterranean fish stocks …
Fish Update – Published: 13 May, 2013
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Good news for sharks at Indian Ocean Tuna Commission meeting
Gland, Switzerland: WWF welcomes the adoption of key conservation measures for oceanic white-tip sharks, whale sharks and cetaceans following the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) annual meeting last week in Mauritius …
WWF International – Posted on 13 May 2013
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