Bird flu... are we hatching the next pandemic?

Horses who travel internationally are subjected to greater potential disease risk than those who don’t. BEVA junior vice-president James Crabtree FRCVS outlines the relevant vaccination advice

It sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories or a disaster movie: a series of volcanic eruptions kicks off a deadly pandemic. But new research suggests that such an event may indeed have happened.

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

WHAT was your childhood ambition? When Ryan Shorter, now thirty, wrote a letter about his ambition to own his own zoo, he was just twelve years old. No-one imagined this childhood dream would one day

Vets, doctors and volunteers all play a part in helping point-to-points run safely. Euan Laidlaw MRCVS outlines how they do so

Over the years, Raccoons, which originally lived in woodland, have become as ubiquitous in North American cities as urban foxes are in the UK. In the wild they eat insects, fish, nuts and berries, but