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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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This competition asked you to design a secret egg hidden somewhere in nature, and your entries went far beyond the obvious nests and burrows. Eggs arrived disguised as pine cones, floating on leaf boats, perched on volcano ledges, tucked into cloud cover and even masquerading as chocolate Easter eggs to fool foxes. Thank you to every reader who took up the challenge and thought like a parent bird, fish, reptile or imaginary creature trying to keep their precious egg safe.
We were swept away by the response to this competition. Letters arrived from rivers across the world – the Thames, the Mississippi and many more unnamed waterways – each one brimming with personality, passion and a genuine love of the natural world. You gave your rivers voices that were worried, hop...
Somewhere beneath a grassy field right now, a tiny insect is building an underground loudspeaker. Male mole crickets engineer horn-shaped burrows that amplify their calls hundreds of metres into the night air – and your child can recreate the same science at home using nothing but cardboard and a phone. This hands-on experiment explores sound, shape and natural engineering in a way that is genuinely surprising. No screens, no special equipment, just a brilliant idea borrowed from nature.
