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Shooting bears in Bedfordshire
After two brown bears were shot at Whipsnade Zoo, PETER FROST considers if zoos are still an acceptable way of entertaining and educating us about wild animals
A file photo of a brown bear
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
LAST week I heard the appalling news that two brown bears (Ursus arctos) had been shot and killed after escaping their enclosure at Whipsnade Zoo, part of the Zoological Society of London.
The escape has been blamed on a storm battered tree which fell onto their enclosure fence and enabled them to scramble into a neighbouring wild boar enclosure.
This must be a deeply distressing time for those who cared for the bears, named Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
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