News from the World Wildlife Fund – In Colombia, north South America, a vast area of Amazonian rain forest has been officially designated a national park and U.N.E.S.C.O. World Heritage Site. The Serrania del Chiribiquete national park, now the largest national park protecting rain forest, is home for a multitude of species, some endangered such as the lowland tapir (see above). The landscape includes river courses and towering cliffs around the base of an extinct volcano. Let’s hope the people of Colombia show a higher level of fair-play than their national footballers on the pitch!
The charity Compassion in World Farming is currently celebrating its recent Good Farming awards. For example, the Co-op were given an award for their commitment to out-door reared pork. Other multi-nationals are making promises but the timescales seem very slow. Sainsbury’s continues to be outlawed for reneging on an earlier commitment to high welfare bred chicken.
C.I.W.F. was a founder member of the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics and the E.U. is now committed to ending the routine ‘preventative’ use of antibiotics on farms.
C.I.W.F. activists in Italy are experiencing resistance to the phasing-out of sow cages.