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March 17, 2022

A Birthday Surprise – VEGAN VOICES writer Ingrid Newkirk

Next in our series on the writers of “VEGAN VOICES – Essays by Inspiring Changemakers”, is Ingrid Newkirk. Ingrid Newkirk is the founder and president of...

February 28, 2022

New Study Shows Fishes May Have Self Awareness

A new study by researchers led by Masanori Kohda, a biologist at the Graduate School of Science in Osaka City University, shows fishes may have self...

October 26, 2021

Captain Paul Watson: ‘My Burden And My Joy’

A deeply poignant account of witnessing the death of a mighty whale, by Captain Paul Watson, conservationist and environmentalist and founder of the Sea...

September 22, 2021

Struggling For Breath On The Beach – Dolphin Slaughter In The Faroe Islands

The Grindadráp is a type of dolphin drive hunting that involves beaching and slaughtering pilot whales. On just one day this week, 14,000 mammals were...

July 21, 2021

THERE’S AN INTELLIGENT BEING IN THAT SQUISHY BODY: CUTTLEFISH PASS TEST DESIGNED FOR CHILDREN

Cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus) appear alien to us, yet they possess remarkable intelligence, cunning ways, curiosity and affection...

July 20, 2021

The Suffering Of Marvellous Fish

For some years now the scientific concensus has been that fish feel pain. At the anatomical level, fish have neurons known as nociceptors, which detect...

April 11, 2021

Fish Feel! What the documentary ‘Seaspiracy’ Has Taught Us.

The important documentary by filmmaker Ali Tabrizi is swearing people off eating fish. One of the most important reasons for this is that fish are...

March 25, 2021

‘Seaspiracy’: A Shocking Indictment of the Commercial Fishing Industry

In this breathtaking new Netflix documentary, film makers Ali and Lucy Tabrizi take us on a journey to Europe and Asia in an investigation that reveals...

February 28, 2021

It’s Time For A Sea Change In Our Thinking About Fishes

We slaughter fish in their trillions every year, and force them to lead lives of prolonged suffering in aquaculture operations. The majority of scientists...

February 16, 2021

A Sea Of Suffering: The Cruel Reality Of Salmon Farming

In the aquaculture industry, animals live in disgusting and stressful conditions, and are often fully conscious during slaughter and die a slow, painful...

February 8, 2021

The Invisible Threat To Our Ocean Wildlife: Noise Pollution

Over the past 50 years increased human activity in the oceans has escalated noise pollution affecting, sometimes catastrophically, animals who live in the...

July 15, 2020

Killing Whales Makes Climate Change Worse

All living beings are interconnected, and interact in myriad ways with their environment. Our wanton killing of sea creatures affects entire ecosystems...