Wildlife
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Letters: For my son it meant a loss of his ‘job’, which he was very proud of. He also lost the companionship of the people he’d worked alongside for several years
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Notebook SOS: save our swimming lessons
Patrick BarkhamIt has to be the best form of exercise – life-saving and a supreme pleasure. So why are so many British schools failing to provide tuition despite their national curriculum obligations? -
Conservationists criticise Andrew Cuomo after he tweets photos of himself next to thresher shark caught during fishing trip
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Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken
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Country diary: Crewe Green, Cheshire This one has had a lucky escape; with more than half of its wings gone, it’s surprising it can fly at all. Butterflies may look ethereal and fragile, but they are survivors
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Brief letters: History of fostering | ‘Moist’ is a winning word | Bertolt Brecht v Brendan O’Carroll | Wrens’ bravery
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Yellowstone and other major parks grapple with illegal camping, vandalism, theft of resources, wildlife harassment and other misbehavior from visitors
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Campaigners attack broken election pledge to shut down domestic market
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Numbers of the endangered butterfly, once pronounced extinct in the UK, have reached their highest level in 80 years, according to conservationists
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Watching wildebeest, zebras, bears and penguins doing what we’ve seen them doing countless times before was 60 minutes of your life you will never get back
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Country diary: Strathnairn, Highlands Its rich chocolate fur looked luxuriant, and it was easy to see why it was so much prized in the middle ages as a trimming for robes of state
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But farmers are concerned they will not be able to protect crops from insects if they cannot use neonicotinoids
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Expansion of Papahānaumokuākea marine national monument, which is now more than twice the size of Texas, is the president’s final push on conservation
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Soldier crabs, a family of brown bears and spotted hyenas are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Government countryside assessment paints a ‘grim picture’ with key species such as hedgehogs, dormice, birds and butterflies all continuing to decrease in number
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Queensland woman says she had to fight the animal after finding it had her daughter pinned to the ground
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Plantwatch Burrowing larvae and pathogens causing blight are a growing hazard for many of the best-loved trees in the landscape
Tasmanian devils rapidly evolving to resist contagious cancer, study finds