We say – Excellent ! – well done EasyJet for setting the standard we now want to see from other airlines also.

EasyJet has announced plans to change holidays, trips and excursions to make animal welfare a key priority of its business operations.

After consulting leading animal welfare charities including World Animal Protection, the tour operator has scrapped all tours that include animal-based attractions. This includes marine parks, zoos, animal performances, animal rides and sporting events involving animals.

Keep reading:

New animal welfare guidelines at easyJet prompts changes to tours and holidays (msn.com)

Top Airline ! – Regards Mark

There is a General Election on the horizon – almost certainly this year 2024.

Badgers have friends, and those friends have votes.

A new government plan to wipe out all badgers in certain areas has prompted a fresh row between officials and wildlife activists.

Badgers are blamed for carrying bovine tuberculosis (bTB), which forces dairy farmers to have infected herds culled.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has back-tracked on earlier promises to end the badger cull, which began in 2013.

Instead, as revealed by The Independent last month, officials are proposing to allow 100 per cent of populations to be killed in “cluster” hot spots for the disease. Until now, the target was 70 per cent or above.

Continue reading at:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/plan-to-step-up-badger-cull-prompts-fresh-row-between-ministers-and-wildlife-defenders/ar-BB1jUaN1?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=c8bbe024ae6a4632a7fdcd1fac297081&ei=48

Regards Mark

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-government-overturns-plans-to-phase-out-badger-cull/ar-BB1jTpW2?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=8a167932fd2445378d9a8c7acc9d84bb&ei=54

Above and below – Beautiful – In My Garden (Mark).

England: Setts, Drugs and Rock n Roll. Dr Brian May Speaks In Defence of Badgers at Oxford University.

WAV Comment – I have enjoyed the majestic Sequoia on my travels around California in the past.. Back home here in England; there is a local park approx 2 miles from my house. Here they have a mighty Sequoia which must be 30. 40, 50 ? years old; it is huge. The following from the BBC relates to very recent info:

Giant sequoia trees, first imported to the UK 160 years ago, are flourishing despite the dramatically different climate to their native California, a new study has found.

The huge trees, which are declining in numbers in California due to increasing heat, are adapting well to the British climate and growing taller, according to a study conducted by UCL researchers.

Continue reading at:

Giant sequoias thriving in UK and could grow as tall as in California (msn.com)

Regards Mark