Conservation
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A rare Rothschild’s giraffe, born last week, takes its first steps on Thursday at Chester Zoo
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Red list entries swell to 67 species as conservationists call for urgent action to save birds of Britain including warblers, curlews and puffins
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Letters: Admittedly we don’t have a nightclub, or the glitz of the gambling casinos and pubs of Bristol, but we do have trains to Clifton
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Biologist and historian best known for Hooper’s Law, used to estimate the age of a hedgerow
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Human activity has put wildlife around the world at risk, but many creatures are now thriving thanks to conservationists
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He said he was looking for parasitic wasps but volunteers at Daneway Banks where the large blue is flourishing suspected Phillip Cullen had ulterior motives
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Phillip Cullen sentenced for illegally capturing and killing specimens of the large blue, Britain’s rarest butterfly
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New law allows private landowners to cut down any number of trees without applying for permission or even informing authorities
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Country Diary: Dartmoor, Devon A thick cylindrical form, bent double like a trombone pipe, in a sheltered patch of grass, stops me short
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Butterflywatch This year is unlikely to be a brilliant butterfly summer because 2016 was so poor. But insects can rapidly bounce back
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Letters: Our children are growing up in a land that has seen a thinning out of the mass of nature by more than 50% in the past 40 years
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Weatherwatch Fine spring days open the door to birds heading to the UK to breed but it is also a time of shifting winds, even icy northerlies
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Trees soak up greenhouse gases, so how do we ensure their protection? Our experts offer seven ideas for the conservation and restoration of forests
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Letters: St Lucia has had an excellent record on wildlife conservation, and visitors should emphasise this to the island’s tourist office
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Rare only 40 years ago, farmed salmon is now taken for granted in our kitchens. But the growth of the industry has come at great cost
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A natural history GCSE? It might help get our children outdoors
Michael McCarthyThe experts agree: children are too enclosed. Lessons about Britain’s flora and fauna could be the answer
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National park three times the size of Yellowstone in the US will link up 67 existing reserves to make mating easier
Country diary Tumps of tunnelling moles reveal the past