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Wildlife

8 August 2024

  • Fire illuminates smoke rising above a nighttime horizon of trees on a lake

    Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’

    Devastation in Brazil wetlands was made at least four times more likely by fossil fuel use and deforestation, scientists say
  • Two newborn olive ridley sea turtles seen from above make their way across the sand towards the sea. Dehiwala beach, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians

    Volunteers are helping save baby sea turtles as the endangered species’ favourite nesting spots come under pressure from development, poaching and tourists
  • A singing sedge warbler perched in a reed bed.

    Country diary
    Country diary: The mimicry of a sedge warbler drifts in this quiet place

    Maelor Saesneg, north-east Wales: This is lake country, haunting and fascinating, and strongly Welsh despite being a stone’s throw from England

7 August 2024

  • The white outline of a bird on glass

    The age of extinction
    Death toll for birds hitting buildings may be over 1 billion a year in US – report

  • Macro closeup of a common British wasp feeding on the herb fennel.

    UK failing to monitor apparently falling wasp populations, expert warns

  • A puffin with sand eels in beak

    Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: Sand eel fishing ban offers hope of stock resurgence

  • Australian sea lion numbers have plunged by 60% in the past 40 years, leaving only about 10,000 of them across 80 breeding sites along Australia’s south and west coastline.

    ‘Best slow TV ever’: scientists mount cameras on endangered sea lions to map Australia’s ocean floor

6 August 2024

  • A badger in a cage being injected

    The age of extinction
    Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds

    Percentage of badgers with bTB fell to zero in Cornish study, raising hopes of end to cull of 210,000 badgers since 2013

5 August 2024

  • Dolphin in the Thames, London

    Two dolphins found dead on banks of Thames in London

  • Helen Sullivan

    The nature of ...
    A naked mole rat: like termites, they have one almost endlessly pregnant queen

    Helen Sullivan
  • saltwater crocodile with head poking out of water

    Crocodile suspected of fatal Queensland attack killed as search continues for missing man

  • Rachel Frain, John Blackburn, Andrew Pettitt, Rick and Felicity Malt and their daughter behind a bar

    Norfolk Wildlife Trust revives endangered species: the local pub

  • Country diary
    Country diary: The night air is thick with bats

  • All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects, study finds

4 August 2024

  • A tan and black wolf looks into the camera, with greenery behind him

    A wolf’s killing shocked Canada. Then his image appeared on a hunting site

  • Wildflower field

    The frogs may be gone, but life goes on: how I regained my faith in gardening for wildlife

3 August 2024

  • A man with binoculars standing by a fenced-off field

    Ecologist taking on MoD to protect skylarks says he has faced threats and assault

    Campaigners say rare grassland on former firing range in Essex was mowed, killing the birds and their chicks that nest on the ground
  • A dolphin half out of the water in the River Thames with a few dinghies anchored nearby and a building and trees in the background

    Charity appeals for people to stay away from dolphin in Thames

    Rescue body says dolphin spotted on Thursday may be further disoriented by human interference
  • The new calf among the herd on Andrea's farm

    Country diary
    Country diary: Snowdrops can come good in the summer

    Tebay, Cumbria: I anxiously picked berries while waiting for Snowdrop to give birth to the first pedigree calf of our herd

2 August 2024

  • A chough flying above a field

    Choughs breed in Kent for first time in 200 years

    Unexpected fledging is result of long-term restoration project to bring red-billed birds back to Kent coastline
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