Mark Jones
@markjonesvet.bsky.social
Vet, wildlife enthusiast, nature and animal lover, Head of Policy at Born Free Foundation. All views are my own.
Does the Government’s new Animal Welfare Strategy for England stand up to scrutiny? Born Free responds to new proposals billed as ‘the most ambitious animal welfare strategy in a generation’ www.bornfree.org.uk/news/good-ne...
Does the Government’s new Animal Welfare Strategy for England stand up to scrutiny?
Born Free responds to new proposals billed as ‘the most ambitious animal welfare strategy in a generation’
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December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Does the Government’s new Animal Welfare Strategy for England stand up to scrutiny? Born Free responds to new proposals billed as ‘the most ambitious animal welfare strategy in a generation’ www.bornfree.org.uk/news/good-ne...
Netherlands Bans Public Sale And Use Of Fireworks Nationwide, Protecting People And Animals worldanimalnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
Netherlands Bans Public Sale And Use Of Fireworks Nationwide, Protecting People And Animals | World Animal News
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December 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Netherlands Bans Public Sale And Use Of Fireworks Nationwide, Protecting People And Animals worldanimalnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
Making CITES Great Again? www.nrdc.org/bio/paul-tod...
Making CITES Great Again?
Despite some bad behavior at COP20, the United States may have outlined what needs to happen if we are to successfully halt international trade in endangered species.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Making CITES Great Again? www.nrdc.org/bio/paul-tod...
Born Free condemns Botswana’s increased elephant hunting quota www.bornfree.org.uk/news/born-fr...
Born Free condemns Botswana’s increased elephant hunting quota
We’re urging the authorities in Botswana to think again, and adopt compassionate, non-lethal approaches to foster human-elephant coexistence.
www.bornfree.org.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Born Free condemns Botswana’s increased elephant hunting quota www.bornfree.org.uk/news/born-fr...
Flea treatment - The silent river killer - River Action UK riveractionuk.com/news/flea-tr...
Flea treatment - The silent river killer - River Action UK
Silent Rivers By Jeff Gill In 1962, Rachel Carson published her seminal book A Silent Spring. In it, she exposed the devastating environmental damage caused by the pesticide DDT and challenged the mis...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Flea treatment - The silent river killer - River Action UK riveractionuk.com/news/flea-tr...
Nunavik hunters asked to delay beluga harvest as population estimate hits record low www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Nunavik hunters asked to delay beluga harvest as population estimate hits record low | CBC News
Fisheries and Oceans Canada's (DFO) survey estimate for the Belcher Islands-Eastern Hudson Bay beluga population in 2024 was 2,200 animals – the lowest estimate on record. Nunavik hunters are being as...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Nunavik hunters asked to delay beluga harvest as population estimate hits record low www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Orangutan drowns at Prague Zoo, emphasising once again that great apes simply don't belong in captivity www.zoopraha.cz/en/about-zoo...
Prague Zoo lost its Sumatran orangutan Pustakawan today
A five-year-old male Sumatran orangutan named Pustakawan, who was known as Kawi, unfortunately died at Prague Zoo this morning. The tragic event was caused by Kawi’s youthful recklessness and a game i...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Orangutan drowns at Prague Zoo, emphasising once again that great apes simply don't belong in captivity www.zoopraha.cz/en/about-zoo...
Integrating animal health and welfare into the 2030 agenda and beyond wp.nyu.edu/ceap/integra...
Integrating animal health and welfare into the 2030 agenda and beyond – Center for Environmental and Animal Protection
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December 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Integrating animal health and welfare into the 2030 agenda and beyond wp.nyu.edu/ceap/integra...
Beneath the surface of the wins for wildlife at CITES' latest conference tracyk.substack.com/p/beneath-th...
Beneath the surface of the wins for wildlife at CITES' latest conference
The global wildlife trade body's triennial meeting delivered triumphs for some species but illuminated systemic weaknesses that point to a troubling road ahead
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December 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Beneath the surface of the wins for wildlife at CITES' latest conference tracyk.substack.com/p/beneath-th...
30,000 live animals seized in global operation against wildlife and forestry crime www.interpol.int/News-and-Eve...
30,000 live animals seized in global operation against wildlife and forestry crime
134 participating countries make record seizures of protected plants, animals and timber
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December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
30,000 live animals seized in global operation against wildlife and forestry crime www.interpol.int/News-and-Eve...
Tiger teeth, dried seahorses and shark fins are being sold illegally on Facebook, BBC finds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tiger teeth, dried seahorses and shark fins are being sold illegally on Facebook, BBC finds
Endangered species are being sold online with UK-based firms illegally supplying seahorses, a BBC investigation finds.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Tiger teeth, dried seahorses and shark fins are being sold illegally on Facebook, BBC finds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why are conservationists alarmed about Botswana’s biggest elephant hunt? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Why are conservationists alarmed about Botswana’s biggest elephant hunt?
Botswana holds the world's largest elephant population with one of the highest trophy-hunting quotas.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Why are conservationists alarmed about Botswana’s biggest elephant hunt? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
A tribute to Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton CBE - Born Free www.bornfree.org.uk/news/a-tribu...
A tribute to Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton CBE
Born Free’s Co-Founder and Executive President, Will Travers OBE, honours Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton CBE, a pioneering force in elephant conservation.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A tribute to Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton CBE - Born Free www.bornfree.org.uk/news/a-tribu...
CITES CoP20 – some good outcomes for wildlife in a time of uncertainty www.bornfree.org.uk/news/cites-c...
CITES CoP20 – some good outcomes for wildlife
Born Free’s Head of Policy, Dr Mark Jones, reports back on the key outcomes from the international wildlife trade conference.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
CITES CoP20 – some good outcomes for wildlife in a time of uncertainty www.bornfree.org.uk/news/cites-c...
Botswana’s elephant hunting quota threatens to wipe out mature bulls: Report news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Botswana’s elephant hunting quota threatens to wipe out mature bulls: Report
The reintroduction of elephant trophy hunting in Botswana in 2019, following a five-year moratorium, is likely severely depleting the number of large, older bulls, according to a recent report. This h...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Botswana’s elephant hunting quota threatens to wipe out mature bulls: Report news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
UK introduces voluntary health assessment for flat-faced dog breeds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
UK introduces voluntary health assessment for flat-faced dog breeds
Breeders welcome initiative from all-party parliamentary group on animal welfare, but question its usefulness
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December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
UK introduces voluntary health assessment for flat-faced dog breeds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Seafood award farm hit by mass salmon deaths in grim October www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567441...
'Seafood Product of the Year' farm hit by mass salmon deaths in industry worst month
A salmon farm hailed as Seafood Product of the Year has suffered huge losses in one of the industry’s worst months on record, raising fresh…
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December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Seafood award farm hit by mass salmon deaths in grim October www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567441...
Southern Africa’s wildlife trade agenda implodes, and with it the veneer of a ‘successful’ conservation model www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Southern Africa’s wildlife trade agenda implodes, and with it the veneer of a ‘successful’ conservation model | Daily Maverick
CITES CoP20 in Samarkand exposed a stark truth: the conservation model southern Africa has spent decades promoting is no longer credible.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Southern Africa’s wildlife trade agenda implodes, and with it the veneer of a ‘successful’ conservation model www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Kazakhstan’s push to lift saiga trade ban meets strong global resistance at CITES meeting www.newsdrum.in/internationa...
Kazakhstan Saiga Antelope News
Kazakhstan wants the moratorium on commercial international trade on saiga antelope, an icon of the Eurasian steppe, to be lifted. However, scientists, conservationist...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Kazakhstan’s push to lift saiga trade ban meets strong global resistance at CITES meeting www.newsdrum.in/internationa...
Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar news.mongabay.com/2025/11/lemu...
Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Madagascar’s cities, a quiet but lucrative market is reshaping th...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar news.mongabay.com/2025/11/lemu...
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels
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December 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Building the EU of 2050: Animal welfare must be at the centre www.brusselstimes.com/1858933/buil...
Building the EU of 2050: Animal welfare must be at the centre
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December 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Building the EU of 2050: Animal welfare must be at the centre www.brusselstimes.com/1858933/buil...
MEPs call on the Commission to finally ban fur farming www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/meps-ca...
MEPs call on the Commission to finally ban fur farming
Today, during a plenary debate in Strasbourg, MEPs from across the political spectrum asked the European Commission (EC) to introduce an EU-wide ban on fur farming and on the placing of farmed fur pro...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
MEPs call on the Commission to finally ban fur farming www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/meps-ca...
Animals at the Amazon COP wfa.org/cop30-outcom...
Animals at the Amazon COP - WFA at COP30
The World Federation for Animals reports from COP30 in Belém, Brazil, examining animal welfare, policy outcomes, and the role of wildlife as climate allies.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Animals at the Amazon COP wfa.org/cop30-outcom...
Survey raises estimate of African forest elephant numbers phys.org/news/2025-11...
Survey raises estimate of African forest elephant numbers
DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate—and higher—population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a study sho...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Survey raises estimate of African forest elephant numbers phys.org/news/2025-11...