Philip Lymbery | The Scotsman

Philip Lymbery is global chief executive of Compassion in World Farming International and a United Nations Food Systems Champion

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If Mars is 'Planet B', then the future for humanity looks bleak (Picture: Nasa/Getty Images)

We must embrace nature-friendly farming to save Earth from 'Age of Loneliness'

Healthy soil is full of worms and a host of other organisms (Picture: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images)

Destruction of healthy soils is the 'elephant’ on the farm we must not ignore

The use of heavy farm vehicles is compacting the soil, so that water flashes off rather than soaking in (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Industrial farming is threatening humanity’s ability to feed itself

An octopus unscrews the lid of a jar to get hold of the crab inside, in an aquarium in Denmark (Picture: Jorgen Jessen/AFP via Getty Images)

Octopus farming? This extraordinary animal should stay in ocean – Philip Lymbery

Carved pumpkins are a feature of Halloween, but what happens to their flesh? (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Philip Lymbery: Rotting pumpkins are a reminder of terrifying cost of food waste

The close confinement of chickens can create the perfect breeding ground for new types of diseases to emerge (Picture: Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

Wild birds are paying a deadly price for cheap chicken. And we could be next

A bison at the Wildwood Trust, near Canterbury in Kent, gets to know two of the UK's first bison rangers (Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA)

Bisons' reintroduction to UK will turbo-charge return of nature – Philip Lymbery

Today's factory farmed chickens are grotesque parodies of the creatures they should be (Picture: Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

Humanity has turned Earth's Garden of Eden into a world in decline

Mass soybean harvesting at a farm in Campo Verde, Brazil

Food for thought: how we are farming our way to disaster – Philip Lymbery

A Sumatran elephant in a conservation area in Way Kambas, Lampung, Indonesia (Picture: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

How elephants are dying because of factory farming – Philip Lymbery

Belgian chef Donald Deschagt and Flemish agriculture minister Hilde Crevits have a taste at the launch of an event to promote seaweed as a source of protein in Oostende in April (Picture: Kurt Desplenter/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images)

Tomorrow's menu: Here's what we could be eating by 2040 – Philip Lymbery

Peregrine falcons are the fastest living things on the planet (Picture: Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images)

Pesticides’ deadly effect on ‘King’s Bird’ should serve as warning to humans

Some of the 390 statues, or moais in the Rapa Nui language, on the hillside of the Rano Raraku volcano in Easter Island (Picture: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images)

'Warning of Easter Island' is one that humanity must not ignore – Philip Lymbery

Reintroducing bee species that became extinct in Britain has proved difficult. Much better to save them from that fate (Picture: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP via Getty Images)

Bees, ambassadors of the natural world, have an important message for humanity

Ukrainian soldiers inspect a grain warehouse shelled by Russian forces near the frontlines of Kherson Oblast in Novovorontsovka (Picture:John Moore/Getty Images)

How global food crisis is being exacerbated by factory farming – Philip Lymbery

Barn owls have struggled as a result of the intensification of farming (Picture: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)

Why barn owls and other once familiar wildlife are disappearing – Philip Lymbery

The UK has lost 481,000 hectares of tree cover between 2001 to 2020 (Picture: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

Worried about the rainforest? Woodlands much closer to home are being trashed

The meat that goes into pet food may not have been produced to high welfare standards (Picture: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

We love our pets, but what are we feeding them? – Philip Lymbery

Over the last 40 years, water vole numbers in Britain have fallen by 90 per cent (Picture: PA)

Water voles are disappearing fast from England's chalk streams – Philip Lymbery

As the world's ice melts, polar bears are increasingly struggling to find food (Picture: Paul Zinken/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

The surprising lesson of a horrific polar bear attack – Philip Lymbery