Journey - Cats Protection from Persistent Peril on Vimeo . Cats Protection is a cat rescue charity entirely run by foster volunteers (on the ground) and it is the leading feline welfare charity in the UK. Their objective is not only to rescue cats and find them new homes but also to support and encourage the neutering of cats and to improve people's understanding of domestic cats in their care. Cats Protection staff. Photo: Cats Protection The organisation does not euthanise healthy cats. Euthanising healthy cats is actually killing cats because the word "euthanasia" only refers to ending the life of cats who are dying of a chronic illness or an injury but it does not apply to healthy cats. It is a massive network of volunteers and the amount of rescuing they do is awesome. There are many branches throughout the country. To give a feel for the scale of the charity, in 2017 I'm told that 43,000 cats were rehomed and 153,000 were spayed or neutered.  In all the or...

This is "the job of a lifetime" (Mark Habben, head of living coolections at the Wildwood Trust). This is a very interesting job for a couple of people who don't have to have a lot of experience with bison but they do need to have a knowledge and passion about ecology, conservation and the environment together with the ability to transmit their knowledge to people who will arrive in the spring of 2022 at a 500-acre fenced enclosure for the UK's first bisons. The bison will live, hopefully, contentedly in a custom-built enclosure at Blean Woods near Canterbury. This is a project by Kent Wildlife Trust and the Wildwood Trust as part of their Wilder Blean Project. We are told that bison are a peaceful animal and they are good for the landscape and wildlife. They fell trees by rubbing against them and eat the bark. They create light in woodlands and provide deadwood for plants and animals. Bisons also dust bathe which is helpful to provide a habitat for insects and liza...