Animals
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Fiona, a prematurely-born Nile hippo calf, is making excellent progress at her home at The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden after the staff from a local children’s hospital stepped in to help
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Notebook Can we have too many trees?
Patrick BarkhamHunting and mountaineering organisations say that plans to increase forest cover in Scotland will ruin the countryside. I disagree
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 20 February 1917: Everywhere the thrushes, starlings and dunnocks are shuffling their wings and trilling vigorously
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Edie has been a much-loved family cat for years, but when she died it led to some interesting conversations between Eva, her mum and her young daughter…
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The prime minister’s initiative on this most pernicious practice is welcome. Now she must put her money where her mouth is
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Audits carried out at more than 300 abattoirs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland find major hygiene failings in more than a quarter of meat plants
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RSPCA believes baby chickens came from commercial producer but were dumped by a third party
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Country diary: Slufters Inclosure, New Forest This hardy specimen of butterfly has found an ideal basking site among still damp grasses in a bed of fern
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Sea turtles laying eggs, buffalo and a swan lake are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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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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Just under half of requests for exceptions to the neonicotinoids ban were filed by industry, not farmers, legal analysis shows
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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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Nicholas Seafoods found to be in breach of law for butchering and dismembering lobsters with a band saw
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Oddball spent only two weeks on Middle Island guarding penguins, but her short trip led to a permanent maremma dog program
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Conservationists hope second group of 14 scimitar-horned oryx bred in captivity will help repopulate original habitat in Chad
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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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The Westminster dog show is America’s oldest continuously held sporting event after the Kentucky Derby. Now in its 141st year, this year’s competition will see 2908 dogs from 200 different breeds or varieties compete over two days for the coveted best in show title as well as various best in breed prizes.
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The French bulldog is about to become the top breed in Britain, outrunning the overrated labrador, cocker and springer spaniel, and German shepherd. But for me, there will only ever be one top dog
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Helicopters transport 16 of the large mammals to site in Alberta as scheme restores once-dominant grazers to ecosystem
Country diary Talons at noon as red kite pair topple the spare