As no doubt many of us are aware with the "cost of living crisis", times are hard presently and this affects those things that come from any spare money as people of necessity look at what they are spending on non essentials.
On Friday last, it was announced some three hundred jobs were to go and some forty titles were to be discontinued by the Scottish publisher DC Thomson known for the iconic Beano comic and many regional and national Scottish newspapers.
In the list of publications for being discontinued is Animal Planet Kids which was an excellent animal and ecology centred publication with a more eight to thirteen readership in the main looking at species, needs and current threats to their population in an easy to understand accessable way.
It also has features such as pieces about the COPPT conferences, work in restoring climates and a lively letters page.
The younger age range was covered by Animals and You which short pieces about animals and that too is earmarked to be closed.
Apart from effecting D C Thomson staff, freelance contributors and the like it affects the printing industry that today takes the electronically produced magazine in its page layout and turns them out as physical magazines.
I am sorry to see such a great magazine go.
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