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Feeding our pets – particularly CATS AND DOGS – creates over 64 million tons of carbon dioxide every year (ouch!). MEATY PET FOOD is the culprit: 25-30% of the environmental impact of meat eating comes from pet food. And the pet food market shows no signs of slowing down. Globally, it is worth a whopping 94 billion dollars (that’s over £71 billion). So, what’s on the menu?
Dog poop is more than sticky and stinky. It can be full of unpleasant bacteria, such as e-coli, tapeworm, hookworm and all sorts of yuck. Cat poop has some even nastier nasties. It all needs to be carefully disposed of. In 2018, there were 900 million DOGS in the world, with nearly nine million dogs in the UK alone. Our pets are producing record quantities of POOP – approximately one million tons every year in the UK.3. BAD CATS?
This is curious… Every year, cats kill billions of birds, mammals and reptiles worldwide. In the UK, they kill at least 55 million birds. Strangely, there is no scientific evidence that bird numbers are dropping. In fact, garden bird numbers are increasing. UK bird species under threat (such as skylarks) are suffering due to things like habitat loss. Nothing to do with cats!
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Thank you to everyone who sent in an entry for the African Animal Postcard competition, published in our Wild Africa: A Continent in Motion issue. You sent us postcards from every corner of Wild Africa – Ethiopian wolves hunting mole rats through mountain mist, flamingo chicks marching across soda l...
You've been designing brilliant new contenders for the Astonishing Amazon Animal Showdown – piranhas with jaws that regrow in whole quarters, a hoatzin that ferments its dinner in a throat pouch, a tailless whip scorpion that senses danger through its legs, and a jaguar with one of the most powerful bites of any mammal. Thank you to every reader who did the research and made the case for their champion.
