This event is absolutely horrific - PETA have just sent an email about it and PETA is urging us all to sign a petition asking the Spanish to stop it.

Help End the Sadistic 'Fire Bull' Festival in Soria

Warning, there is a horrible picture as you click through of a bull and fire, but please, please scroll down fast and get the petition signed.  The sooner the Spanish cancel this horrible event the better.  It has no place in the modern world.  

Please sign here

Adopt an animal from the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust have just launched their new digital adoption packs so you can adopt an animal with them through a digital scheme.

Adopt a beaver through the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

or how about adopting a badger?

You can choose - there's an adopt a hedgehog, adopt a beaver and adopt a badger.  The hard part is surely choosing which animal to adopt. 

Digital adoption packs will include a certificate, a photo of your animal, a guide packed with top tips on your animal and a subscription to the seasonal online wildlife magazine.  Why not sponsor an animal for the nature lover in your life? 

This week they are sending FREE Christmas cards for each digital purchase! They will simply post them out to you after you sign up. The offfer ends 18th November, so don't delay, scurry off to the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to take out a digital adoption  

Now, they've also got a range of lovely gifts for Christmas (or at any time of the year) and these are available through their online shop.  

Images on this blog © Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

“I’m a celebrity….get me out of here”.....The animal charity PETA have been following it for a while now, and you may well have heard about their deep concerns for the animals who are on this show.

I'm a celebrity is presented by Ant and Dec, two well known TV personalities and the idea is that a number of celebrities are taken off into the Australian jungle where they have to perform a series of tasks and then one by one they are voted off, I think that's how it works. 

Many of the tasks involve animals.  “I’m a celebrity”, says PETA, abuses animals.  Human participants have to do things like sticking their heads or hands into tanks full of insects, spiders, mice, rats or fish.  They have to crawl into small spaces full of rats or insects.  They have to eat animals as well.  And PETA says that animals are killed off camera before participants of this pointless show have to eat them.

I want to know why contestants can’t be challenged to do a task to make a difference and help the animals in the jungle or in Australia.  There’s lots to do there.  Why not set them a challenge to see what they can do to plant trees to help koalas?

Of course the other very worrying concern is that there are enough people who will try to follow suit and do these trials at home….The show is sending the wrong message.  It’s telling people that it’s okay to abuse animals.

The animals have no choice but to take part.  PETA says they ensure stress, being confined to small, unfamiliar spaces.  They often have to lose their lives just for cheap laughs and cheap entertainment.

Animals deserve better, and probably they are thinking "I'm an animal....get me out of here."  

So 3 things we can all do:

1. Sign PETA’s online petition urging the show producers to stop abusing animals for entertainment
   
   
2. Spread the word about this petition online
   
   
3. Switch off as soon as the show starts, or not bother to put it on in the first place.

This year's "show" could also be a very good opportunity for participants to refuse to take part in trials involving animals on the grounds that they abuse animals and send out the wrong message. 

Please sign PETA's petition here