I thought I'd take some of my old bulletins and make them blogs.

I read with some excitement about a giant squid being caught on camera for the first time. This creature was apparently 7 meters long.

It brought back memories of being excited by Jules Verne stories about mythical monsters. My heart sank quite quickly though when I read the next part of the article.

'The elusive creature was taped as it was captured off the Ogasawara Islands, south of Tokyo. But the squid, which measured about 7m (24ft) long, died in the process of being caught'.

I just find it quite extraordinary, that in this day and age when we are supposed to be learning to adapt to our surroundings a little better, that the first instinct that most humans have when they see something amazing, is to try and catch and kill it.

Why not just be contented with filming it, why destroy this remarkable work of nature? And these people who did this have the nerve to call themselves scientists.

I feel sick to my stomach. We are a doomed species.