Animals
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Motion to adopt Better Chicken Commitment carried by 96% but directors cited need for low prices
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Sheffield: I was astonished by the nest they made last year, and I’m still hoping they will come back again
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I’ve campaigned for decades against the horrific lives factory-farmed chickens lead – but now there’s hope
Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallA shift in supermarkets’ attitudes and a new judicial review could at last make us face up to this blot on our moral conscience, says broadcaster and food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall -
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including a rare monk seal, nesting gannets and lurking alligatorGallery
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As an old bat with her pyjamas tucked into wellies carrying a mouse and a toad in a bag, I could have been in serious trouble in earlier centuries
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The last of the world’s Asiatic lions live in Gujarat state, but as the apex predators outgrow their forest reserve, they are moving to the seaside
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Charity says stocking countryside for shooting season would be catastrophic with disease still a major threat to wild birds
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Some birds may delay crossing the Channel during adverse weather, but this comes with its own risks
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Caradon Hill, Bodmin Moor: On this cool and hazy May morning, the turf flushes pale green and birds sing from leafy thickets
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Vaccine gets emergency approval as ‘highly contagious’ virus sweeps through flocks of species on the brink of extinction
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Matt Harvill came across gator in waves off Dauphin Island on 7 May and says ‘it didn’t hiss, charge or open its mouth’
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Critics say traps regularly catch non-target species and animals can suffer for days
The makeshift solution for Sydney’s other housing crisis: nesting boxes for wildlife