Eats shoots and leaves… dramatically: Hungry panda tugs at bamboo branch and topples off wooden platform The giant panda eats bamboo leaves at Chongqing Zoo in southwest China Animal rolls over edge of the platform as the other pandas continue eating Panda falls onto the ground and drags the huge branch of bamboo with it … Read more
Bailiffs abseiling from a crane removed veteran eco-warrior ‘Swampy’ from a bamboo tower today built to delay construction on HS2. Protesters erected the tower holding British activist Dan Hooper, 47, in a London river to block a bridge for a road through a forest for the multi-billion pound train project. Two black-clad officials suspended from … Read more
Veteran eco-warrior ‘Swampy’ has again returned to campaigning – to sit in a 30 foot tall bamboo tower in the middle of a river to protest against the HS2 rail line. The activist, 47, re-emerged in October this year following a ‘quiet ten years’ out of the limelight. Now Swampy – real name Daniel Hooper … Read more
Officials at a Chinese province have reportedly culled more than 1.6 tonnes of farm-bred bamboo rats in one go after the government banned the eating and trading of wild animals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese bamboo rats, which are linked to coronavirus, have been a sought-after food source in the country for centuries … Read more