IT IS TIME TO CLOSE LIVE ANIMAL MARKETS ACROSS ASIA

by Sandra Kyle | Feb 10, 2020 | Animal cruelty, Environment, Health & Nutrition, wildlife

Key Points: We need to take measures to reduce the chances of life-threatening viruses issuing from ‘wet markets’ ever happening again.   The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, despite its name, does not sell just seafood – also available were hundreds...

In the wake of Lewis the Koala’s death, there is Hope

by Sandra Kyle | Nov 27, 2019 | Environment, wildlife

Millions are grieving the death of Lewis the Koala but his legacy will live on,  writes End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH.   Ellenborough Lewis – or Lewis for short – has died. The rescued koala received substantial  burns in the bushfires in...

‘An Earth Without Insects?’

by Sandra Kyle | Jul 30, 2019 | climate change, Environment, Nature, Species extinction

  Eighty percent of the biomass of insects has disappeared in just thirty years, and intensive agriculture, particularly the heavy use of pesticides, is  the main driver of this collapse.     The decline in populations worldwide is devastating not only for the...

Q&A: Marc Pierschel, Film Maker

by Sandra Kyle | Jun 29, 2019 | Animal cruelty, climate change, Environment, Health & Nutrition, Veganism, Video

1 Your film THE END OF MEAT envisions a future where meat consumption belongs to the past.   What was your chief motivation in making this film? When I made my last documentary, Live and Let Live, one of my interview questions was what the human-animal relationship...

A message from Thich Nhat Hanh

by Sandra Kyle | Jun 26, 2019 | climate change, Environment, Nature, Sentience, Uncategorised, wildlife

The article below was written by Buddhist monk, teacher and author, THICH NHAT HANH, and we have reprinted it with original illustrations of New Zealand native plants and animals by Alex L Scott.    “This is the kind of awareness, the kind of awakening that we...

VOICES FOR ANIMALS ACROSS THE AGES: LOREN EISELEY

by Sandra Kyle | Jun 24, 2019 | Environment, Nature, wildlife

Loren Eiseley  (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, philosopher and natural science writer.   During his lifetime he received many honorary degrees for his accomplishments.   A ‘scholar of imagination and grace’,  dubbed ‘the modern...