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Wildlife

21 October 2024

  • Angela McLean

    From drones to genomics, science can help fight extinction: that work must begin at Cop16

    Angela McLean
    As nations meet in Colombia to confront species and ecosystem loss, the onus is on the global north to put science and collaboration at the heart of the issue, says Angela McLean, the UK’s chief scientific adviser
  • Two young women pass posters announcing the COP 16 event in Cali, Colombia

    The age of extinction
    Cop16 at a glance: the big issues that will define talks at Colombia’s UN summit

    Delegates from 196 countries are discussing progress in preserving biodiversity. So what are the sticking points?
  • People walk through a field covered with red sand and three trees

    The age of extinction
    Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning

    As the Cop16 biodiversity conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zone

20 October 2024

  • Ruth Davis

    UK appoints first nature envoy to tackle species decline

    Ruth Davis named special representative for nature ‘to put climate and nature at the heart of our foreign policy’
  • A greater bamboo lemur, born to breeding male Raphael and female Bijou at Cotswold wildlife park.

    Cotswold wildlife park successfully breeds endangered Madagascan lemur

    Greater bamboo lemur births in captivity are extremely rare and park is only UK collection to have bred it this year

    • Full Story
      Bringing the blue whale back from the brink – Full Story podcast

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘It’s a monster task’: can culling ferrets and rats save one of the UK’s largest seabird colonies?

    • The age of extinction
      Cop16: Colombia prepares to host ‘decisive’ summit on biodiversity

19 October 2024

  • A murmuration of starlings at sunset next to Brighton Palace Pier on the south coast of England

    ‘The bully of the bird table’: how the humble starling conquered the world

    Some celebrate them, others despise them. Yet this mimicking, competitive and acrobatic songbird still exerts a powerful fascination
  • Hamza Yassin sitting outside wearing a beige T-shirt and holding a toy lion, with vegetation behind him

    Flashback
    Hamza Yassin looks back: ‘I lived in my car for nine months while I cut my teeth as a wildlife cameraman’

    The TV presenter on pet lions and monkeys, moving to the UK from Sudan, and his love for the Scottish Highlands
  • Middlewick Ranges

    Sale of Essex acid grassland for homes would set ‘catastrophic precedent’

    Idea that every habitat is replaceable is a misuse of biodiversity net gain, say ecological experts

18 October 2024

  • Salmon leaping up a waterfall during the salmon run. Yorkshire UK

    What is really behind the decline in wild salmon?

  • A red squirrel forages for food ahead of winter at the Widdale Red Squirrel Reserve in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, UK.

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife in pictures: happy elephants, a tiny koala and baboons taking liberties

17 October 2024

  • Rhaeadr y Cwm waterfall in north Wales.

    Protesters voice fears over waterfall electricity project in north Wales

    Plan for Rhaeadr y Cwm receives 1,000 objections, with many worried about impact on habitats and natural beauty
  • A common pheasant in a stubble field in autumn

    Bird flu in pheasants in England sparks concern over lax rearing rules

    Campaigners call for tightening of measures around ‘wild’ pheasants which are not subject to rules to help control bird flu

    • Under the microscope: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2024 – in pictures

    • Great white shark found washed up on Massachusetts beach

    • How a ‘putrid’ find in a museum cupboard could be the key to bringing the Tasmanian tiger back to life

16 October 2024

  • A bottlenose dolphin swims towards the camera with its mouth open

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Microplastics found in dolphin breath for first time – study

  • Portrait Of Thomas More (1478-1535)

    Brief letters
    Thomas More’s clerical utopia

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