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
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