Green living, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Oct 27th, 2010,
I was watching a late night show on Flemish television last night when a nature philosopher (Jan Desmet) and a hunter where asked to join the discussion table for a debate about the growing fox population in Belgium. I actually really enjoyed Jan Desmet working his way through defending the fox population against the arguments of a jealous hunter (the foxes are hunting faster and better than them, so their hunting game is threatened) and an opinionated commentator talking about killed pet chickens in bourgeois backyards. The truth is, I was completely unaware that the fox population was growing and…
Tags: colonization, Europe, fox, fox population, foxes, hunters, hunting, natural habitat, wildlife
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 14th, 2010,
The UK – particularly London – has been buzzing with wildlife news of late. There’s been a lot of man vs. beast, invasive beast vs. native beast and even man vs. himself. The biggest of these stories has to be the case of the urban fox attacking twin baby girls in an east London house. The young fox slipped into the open house one unusually warm evening and viciously bit the babies about the arms and face as they slept in their upstairs bedroom. The incident has inspired strong reactions – sometimes bordering on the hysterical – public debate and…
Tags: Britain, endangered, fox, foxes, grey, invasive, london, moles, red, species, squirrel, UK, urban
