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Jessica Aldred

Jessica Aldred is the deputy and production editor of theguardian.com/environment and writes on wildlife and conservation. She has worked at the Guardian in a range of roles covering news, sport, arts and public sector since 2002. You can follow her on Twitter @j_aldred

April 2018

  • Soil erosion in the West Country, England

    £10m a year needed to ensure England's soil is fit for farming, report warns

    Soil erosion and water pollution caused by poor farming practices mean land could become too poor to sustain food crops by the end of the century

November 2016

  • Cirl Bunting, Devon, England

    British farmland bird bounces back from brink of extinction

  • The Obama flatworm (Obama nungara)

    Warning over invasive flatworm posing threat to UK wildlife

October 2016

  • Macroalgae beds such as this Microdictyon setchellianum at a depth of 64 meters (210 feet) off Pearl and Hermes Atoll play a critical role in the ecology of deep coral-reef ecosystems. Nearly every fish in this image is a species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

    Scientists discover hidden world of Hawaii's coral 'twilight zone'

    20-year study of deep reefs finds algae meadows and swaths of continuous coral with the highest rate of species found nowhere else in Earth’s seas

September 2016

  • Seahorse near Studland, Dorset

    England needs almost double the number of marine zones to ensure healthy seas

  • Common Frog Rana temporaria in calm pond with silver smooth light and reflection<br>Common Frog Rana temporaria in calm pond with silver smooth light and reflection, Treswell Nottinghamshire, 22 February 2016

    Gardeners may be spreading lethal frog disease throughout UK, study warns

  • Flight of the Swans expedition<br>Undated handout photo issued by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust of Sacha Dench in training over Sweden, as she is set to follow the 4,500-mile migration of Bewick's swans from the Russian Arctic to the UK by flying on a lone expedition with the birds using just a parachute wing and a small propeller engine. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday April 26, 2016. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Swans. Photo credit should read: Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    British conservationist takes to the skies for 4,500-mile migration with swans

  • Wild common spotted orchids grow in a roadside verge by a rural road in the Peak District near Sheffield England UK<br>FKHD1C Wild common spotted orchids grow in a roadside verge by a rural road in the Peak District near Sheffield England UK

    Wildflowers on the verge of disappearing

  • Endangered Hawaiian crows join elite list of animals known to use tools

  • Britain's dormice have declined by a third since 2000, report shows

August 2016

  • Elephants troop to a water hole at the Amboseli national reserve November 13, 2015 at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The first delegation of the China-Africa Wildlife Ambassadors (CAWA) drawn from some of China's media corporations including JC Decaux China, iFENG.com, Beijing MTR Corporation, Shenzhen Press Group, Fulong Media and DEEP magazine arrived in Kenya as part of China's strategy to use iconic members of society to speak up against ivory trade and mobilizing society to stigmatize ivory consumption. In September this year, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced that China will take significant and timely steps to halt the domestic commercial trade of ivory thought to spur, on average, a killing of an elephant every 15 minutes for its ivory accirding to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBATONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images

    Poaching drives huge 30% decline in Africa's savannah elephants

    Ambitious Great Elephant Census finds nearly one-third of continent’s largest elephants were wiped out between 2007-14, largely due to poaching for ivory
  • A water vole

    Water voles to be reintroduced to England's highest lake

    National Trust will release 100 of the endangered animals, not seen at Malham tarn in Yorkshire dales for 50 years

    • Night-time uncovered
      The scientists who only come out at night…

    • Agriculture and overuse greater threats to wildlife than climate change – study

    • Raccoon, mongoose and cabbage among invasive species banned from UK

July 2016

  • In this photo taken Thursday Aug. 19, 2010, a butterfly perches on a leaf in Yasuni National Park in the Upper Napo Valley of the Western Amazon region in Ecuador. Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1989 and home to the Tagaeri-Taromenane and Waorani indigenous communities, holds close to 1 billion barrels of crude. Since 2007 the government of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has appealed to the international community to provide the Andean nation with funding in exchange for abandoning oil drilling in the reserve. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

    Biodiversity greater inside Earth's protected areas, study finds

  • The cliff top trail at the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.

    England's first stretch of south-eastern national coastal path opens

  • Mountain chicken frog, Montserrat

    Caribbean island's last two rare frogs are reunited

  • Chris Allen [glasses blue jacket] and Joe Jack Williams [white tee] the architect and designer behind The Pea Soup House. This instillation [now at RIBA] will move round the country serving soup and raising awareness of air quality issues.

    The soup kitchen putting London's air quality on the menu

June 2016

  • European common cuckoo chick (Cuculus canorus)

    Climate change is disrupting seasonal behaviour of Britain's wildlife

    Global warming is causing breeding and migration cycles of related plants and animals to fall out of sync with potential impacts on entire ecosystems, research shows
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