Wildlife
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After almost five years with taxidermists in New York, Lonesome George has returned home. He may be dead, but his legacy is very much alive
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Country Diary: Mexborough, South Yorkshire No longer ‘more or less solid chemicals’, the gunmetal waters of the Don are clean enough for salmon
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Great Winter Nurdle Hunt finds thousands of pellets used in plastic production washed up on shorelines around country
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UK legislation to ban ivory products from across history would criminalise some of the greatest art the world has seen. We need reason, not passion, in the fight against poaching
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Pesticides, paving and higher temperatures have put huge strain on urban butterfly over past two decades, finds study
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Anne Youngman Scottish Officer for the Bat Conservation Trust and ecologist John Haddow conduct a bat hibernation survey in a disused quarry tunnel and at Doune Castle
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French photographer Gabriel Barathieu has been named this year’s winner for his ‘balletic, malevolent’ dancing octopus, while British winner Nick Blake captured a lone diver among the otherworldly sunbeams of a Mexican cave
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Country diary: South Downs, West Sussex The buzzard raises its wings and lifts its talons up towards the kite, which responds and the two clash
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Presence of manmade chemicals in most remote place on planet shows nowhere is safe from human impact, say scientists
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Helicopters transport 16 of the large mammals to site in Alberta as scheme restores once-dominant grazers to ecosystem
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Country diary: Glenridding, Lake District Warned off by the fell top assessor, ill-prepared ramblers hurry out of the mist
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Letters: To date we have only mapped 20% of all known species, with invertebrates and the “small things” being the most elusive
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Two German inventors created a laundry bag to prevent shedding microfibers ending up in oceans. Now, Patagonia will start selling it to customers
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Volunteers help to refloat and guide pilot whales out to deeper water after a mass stranding at Farewell Spit on the coast of New Zealand
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In the open-air spectacular Boorna Waanginy, scientists, botanists and school children came together with Noongar elders to deliver a powerful message
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Do you like pangolins or silky sharks? How about the black-legged kittiwake? Vote for your favourite in the Wildscreen Arkive’s Valentine’s Day campaign to help protect underappreciated species from poaching and climate change
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Country diary: Warblington, Hampshire By associating with large ungulates, these birds can obtain up to 50% more food using two-thirds of the energy required for lone foraging
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Dozens of volunteers form a barrier in Golden Bay in an effort to prevent more whales from stranding themselves after hundreds died there on Thursday night
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Urgent plea issued for locals to drop work and school commitments and head to the remote beach to save surviving whales
An 'Arctic' safari in the Scottish Highlands