Source: Farmers Guardian. Hilary Benn, Defra Secretary, has rejected calls from the organic lobby to ban insecticides they say damage the health of honey bees.

In response to yesterday's article about bees, Phil Chandler, author of The Barefoot Beekeeper, here suggests 10 more natural and organic orientated solutions to help the endangered honey bee.

Bees are probably one of the most economically useful creatures on earth, pollinating a third of all we eat. They provide more than 50% of pollination of wild plants on which birds and mammals depend say Dr Ivor Davis, Master Beekeeper.

Another key barrier that sometimes pits conservationists against ecologists has been removed by this report from the UK's RSPB on windpower and wildlife living side by side.

The recession is proving a tough time for organic livestock farmers, particularly those in transition from input heavy techniques to organic.

A coalition of animal welfare groups headed by the World Society for the Protection of Animals handed over 150,000 signatures supporting the 'Stop Long Distance Transport of Animals for Slaughter' petition to the European Union Health Commissioner Androul

The Chicken Out! campaign is asking for your creative skills in designing a new label for standard intensively reared chicken.

Not sure in a fight between the Euroepan Parliament and the biotech industry over animal cloning for food who would win- the biotech industry has many friends in the Council of Minsters

A cause close to my heart- living by the Med we are witnessing massive changes in our climate and the fish that live in the sea- the Med is now too warm to support sustainable levels of anchovies and the tuna is being hunted out

Cheap chickens means battery chickens- whereas an organic chicken is packed so full of flavour you can use it for three meals or more- roast chicken, remains for pilau rice and then ahve a great stock for soup- battery chickens are really tastless