• Inside the Questionable World of Wildlife Tourism

    The place is Thailand’s Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo. The year is 2018. An emaciated four-year-old elephant stands in the bowels of a performance stadium with an untreated gash on his temple. One of his legs is bent and heavily swollen; the other is chained to a wall. His...
  • Human Animals @ NNT

    The confrontational and thought-provoking production of Human Animals is in full swing in the Nottingham New Theatre, the only theatre exclusively run by students in England. A dystopian projection of the human destruction of the environment, set in contemporary London. “As the sinister world escalates around them, the six characters...
  • Should we Support Zoos Following the Incident at London Zoo?

    Tragedy struck at London Zoo earlier this month, when a critically endangered tiger killed a potential mate after being flown in in the hopes of increasing the rapidly declining numbers of the species. Asim, a seven-year-old male Sumatran tiger, fatally attacked ten-year-old Melati at their first meeting just ten...