The human species is the most intelligent animal on Earth, but isn’t it sad that it uses its intelligence mainly for perverse and malevolent purposes? We are overly and inexplicably arrogant about our ‘rights’, but have little or no regard to our responsibilities as custodians of the well-being of the planet for future generations, and…
The following is taken from three BBC News articles in June 2015. There is a link between all three. That our population is out of control has been evident for some time, and Nature’s inevitable response is the subject of the third piece. The solution lies with us, and should be top of every political…
Population Matters has put together a very thought provoking collection of quotations expressing concern over human over-population from a wide variety of sources over many centuries. They demonstrate that this is not a new concern, although some may argue that early concerns were probably unfounded. It is truly amazing that with so many influential people alive at present who…
In an earlier post “The Blue Planet” I wondered whether we might actually be alone as the only sentient beings in our galaxy, if not the Universe, and if so that suggests a great responsibility on us to ensure that we live in a sustainable way on our unique planet. Having watched ‘Human Universe’ on…
Easter Sunday 2014 and together with Mrs C I am walking along an almost completely deserted beach on a nature reserve near Knysna in South Africa. Almost deserted except for a couple of folk line fishing from the beach (should they be doing that in a nature reserve – who knows). We walked on way…
Before colonisation by Europeans there were no defined ‘national boundaries’ in Southern Africa and those that we have today inconveniently often straddle traditional tribal boundaries, and of course have no relevance to wildlife. But since the 1990’s there have been moves to establish a number of transfrontier reserves called Peace Parks. Here are some notes…
In an earlier post, ‘Africa – From Cradle to Grave’ I drew attention to the increasing conflict between animals and a rapidly expanding human population in Africa. This BBC story describes a real tragedy that it is now almost too late to avoid, and presages what is destined for all large non-human mammal species across…
