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Wildlife

2 August 2024

  • A fox runs through flames

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a feisty sea lion, a retiring elephant and a fleeing fox

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

1 August 2024

  • A fossil seen from the dorsal (top) side (left) with spines covering the body (right).

    Love child of slug and hedgehog: fossils may shed light on early mollusc ancestors

    Rare specimens found in China from 514m years ago thought to be remains of proto-mollusc
  • A Greenpeace protest against deep-sea mining outside the Czech Republic’s ministry of industry in Prague on 1 June 2023.

    This is a pivotal moment for deep-sea mining

    Letters: The challenger to the current secretary general of the International Seabed Authority should be supported in this week’s election, writes Guy Standing

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Sea change: How the Herring Queen brought promise and joy to a small Scottish town

    • Country diary
      Country diary: Into the woods for the (near) silence of midsummer

    • Cornish conservation charity launches major ‘Tor to Shore’ rewilding project

31 July 2024

  • Fin whale

    Australian government ‘deeply disappointed’ by Japan’s decision to expand commercial whaling target list

  • man wearing "budgie smugglers" is seen laying on the sand at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia

    Brief letters
    The glorious range of Australian slang

  • An illustration of seeds on the moon

    Scientists propose lunar biorepository as ‘backup’ for life on Earth

  • A female glow-worm in the grass at Seacombe, near the village of Worth Matravers

    ‘There’s nothing else like it’: Dorset glow-worm survey charms volunteers

  • NSW shark nets to be removed a month early as more turtles head south in summer

  • Intruder alert! Curious foxes break into the Melbourne metro tunnel – video

  • Butterflywatch
    Where have all Britain’s garden butterflies gone?

  • ‘Really special’: Farm near London to be rewilded to enable new housing in Essex

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Pine martens, dragonflies … this scarred peat bog is healing

30 July 2024

  • Cornu aspersum (the Common garden snail) in a garden in Bexleytheath, Kent

    Brief letters
    Life in the fast lane for snails this year

    Brief letters: Year of the snail | Poetic pylons | Hilary Mantel | Poo bag premium | Difficult decisions
  • Woodland on the North Downs near Abinger Hammer, Surrey: tall, ancient trees line a track. Autumn leaves have fallen but many green and orange leaves are still on the trees; the light shines through them.

    Goals to stop decline of nature in England ‘off track’, report warns

    Audit of Environmental Improvement Plan finds it inadequate as government announces overhaul of goals
  • Elephant Mother Press publicity film still

    Elephant Mother review – sensitive animal documentary with a happy ending

    Conservationist Lek Chailert helps elephants recover from gruelling working lives in Thailand with joviality and grit in this engaging film

29 July 2024

  • A large white butterfly sitting on a yellow flower

    ‘Warning sign to us all’ as UK butterfly numbers hit record low

  • A long thin atoll around a lagoon

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

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