• The badger cull and the perturbation problem

  A large randomised trial had already shown that culling badgers can spread bovine TB as well as reduce it. The policy proceeded anyway.

• The Common Agricultural Policy and the farmland bird decline

  Europe's farmland birds have fallen further than any other group, and the biggest single influence on European farming is a subsidy system. They connect.

• Scientific whaling, and what the exemption is for

  The Republic of Korea told the IWC it would resume Minke Whale hunting under the research provision. What that clause is, and why it draws criticism.

• Trophy hunting, outrage, and what the photograph does not show

  A hunting photograph goes round the world and the argument becomes about one person. The industry behind it is barely touched by that.

Notesshort entries, not full articles

• Mark Avery on whether an individual can make a difference

  Recorded after an autumn statement widely read as hostile to environmental regulation, on what one person can actually do.

• Simon Tonkin on farmland birds

  A conversation on the conservation of farmland birds, and on working with the agricultural systems that determine what survives on them.

• Voices from the London march against the badger cull

  Short interviews recorded on 1 June 2013 with marchers and campaign organisations opposing the English badger cull.