Environmental issues are crucial because they impact human health, economies, biodiversity, and climate stability. They threaten vulnerable communities, demand global cooperation, and require ethical responsibility. Addressing these challenges is essential for long-term sustainability, technological innovation, and ensuring a habitable planet for future generations.
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Last week saw the first student visit to the Muchwood and Mary’s woodland site managed by The College of Animal Welfare (on behalf of The Woodland Trust). The main purpose of the visit was to take the first steps in the creation of a wildflower meadow. Wildflower meadow is a seriously threatened habitat that has […]
Do you have a passion for the countryside and the environment around you? Perhaps you have some basic knowledge and skills but would like to expand these, maybe with the view to finding work as, for example, a park ranger or nature reserve warden. If so, this may be the ideal course for you! The […]
A tiny flea that incubated the deadly zoonotic disease; the bubonic plague, killed an estimated one-hundred-million people worldwide. The Black death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Now the parasitic ‘Varroa’ mite has helped spread a deadly virus, killing off millions of bee colonies (that’s billions of bees) around the globe. Many countries have […]
In conjunction with World Environment Day on Wednesday 5 June, The College of Animal Welfare is holding a poster competition for all CAW students with the winning entrant receiving a £100 book voucher! All you need to do is create a poster which highlights the issues surrounding our environment and which promotes ways to improve […]
When searching for life on other planets, scientists look to the extreme conditions that life can survive in, here on planet Earth.
Dieback disease is an invasive fungi effecting Ash trees and for the past 10 years has been spreading across continental Europe and has effected 90% of Ash trees in Denmark. The Ash is upon the most numerous in the UK , with some 80 million trees here now at risk. This tiny fungus (we are […]
Scientists have found abnormal shape mutations in butterflies and moths; legs, wings and antennae, following the 2011 Fukushima accident in 2011. A Japanese team will now investigate up the food chain, looking at birds and also the long term effects of the local land and sea based ecologies. Read more over at BBC Nature.
This arti-FISH-al animal was made in a lab using rat cells and could one day be the end of animal testing!
The RSPB’s annual ‘Big Garden Birdwatch’ has revealed a significant 80% decline in the UK’s starling population since 1979.
Known as the rarest species in the world, the Pinta Tortoise of the Galapagos Islands are now extinct.