My least favourite animal is easier.

I love seeing animals of all kinds in the wild. There is something incredible in seeing a creature living a life that is close to what nature intended. Only one creature does not and that of course is human beings. Based on the Bible, we see ourselves as having ‘dominion’ over all other inhabitants of the Earth. This is nonsense in my opinion. We are not a species who are different from every other, we are just one branch of the animal kingdom, specifically one evolved from primates. Instead of working with other creatures we work against them and we destroy and poison their habitats.

Even if I accept that we do actually have ‘dominion’ we are doing an appalling job aren’t we? World leaders who profess to believe in some form of God are enthusiastic in their attempts to destroy our planet’s habitats and to dig up more and more areas to make the survival of other living things even less likely. How is that exercising dominion? Perhaps it is a misreading of dominion as dominance that current and past leaders have had, a misreading that says so much about us as a species and the awful human beings we elect around the world.

I remember a poem I read at school which was about the last rabbit on the last piece of grass in England. It never occurred to me that I could live to see it.