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Wildlife

16 June 2024

  • Illustrated collage showing school children walking and playing in a green space surrounded by big flowers and cherubs playing trumpets

    Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

    Science on specific benefits for children’s behaviour and thinking is catching up with established wellbeing claims

14 June 2024

  • A flock of pigeons scrambling over each other

    The age of extinction
    How do you put pigeons on the pill? Scientists test contraceptives to curb pest numbers

    Birth control is being trialled as a humane way to limit growing numbers of grey squirrels, pigeons and wild boar
  • A bumble bee hovers over bright yellow gorse in Devon, south-west England

    Wildlife experts urge action on pesticides as UK insect populations plummet

    Campaigners say next government must reduce use and toxicity of pesticides before it is too late
  • Needlefish in water.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A gleaming catch causes much excitement

    Lough Foyle, County Derry: A young man and his daughter have landed a needlefish – though it’s more muscular than the name suggests

13 June 2024

  • A shark can be seen underwater, with a boat and divers above

    The age of extinction
    ‘They’re not like puppy dogs. They should be respected’: how to swim with sharks in British waters

  • A white Arctic fox lying in the sun, Norway.

    The age of extinction
    Eagle attacks, red invaders and a genetic bottleneck: inside the fight to save arctic foxes

12 June 2024

  • A sleepy bear was was filmed by a northern Canadian after it broke into her car

    Bear caught on camera snoozing inside car after breaking in – video

  • A small yellowish songbird perched on a log

    The age of extinction
    Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

  • Wang Wang and Fu Ni

    Panda diplomacy: Chinese premier Li Qiang could announce two new rare bears for Australia during state visit

  • A brown, grey and black pochard duck floats on water

    Birdwatch
    Birdwatch: pochards are one of Britain’s rarest breeders

11 June 2024

  • The insect collection trap. Millions of insects migrate through 30-metre Pyrenees pass

    ‘Magical’: 17m insects fly each year through narrow pass in Pyrenees, say scientists

  • A white grizzly bear, known as Nakoda, with her cubs.

    Rare white grizzly bear and two cubs killed in Canada in separate car strikes

  • A dead whale about 20 metres long lies on its side on a tarmacked surface, which is covered in water and blood.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Iceland grants country’s last whaling company licence to hunt 128 fin whales

  • A cuckoo being chased by a pipit.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A cuckoo unleashes the fury of the pipits

10 June 2024

  • In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution demonstrates that elephants respond to individual names, one of the few animal species known to do so. (George Wittemyer via AP)

    Elephants call each other by name, study finds

  • Views of chalk downlands on edge of the Chiltern Hills, Ashridge Estate, Buckinghamshire, England.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1949: the changing face of the Chilterns

9 June 2024

  • Taylor Swift in concert at Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh on 7 June 2024.

    Brief letters
    One Swift does not make a summer

    Taylor who? | This year’s absence of swifts | Festival food | Suzi Quatro | The King’s medals
  • Claire Ratinon

    I’m an eco-friendly grower – so why do I want to murder all these vile slugs?

    Claire Ratinon
    Now they’ve invaded my brassicas I’m at war with my conscience, says the writer Claire Ratinon
  • Parakeets wait for snacks in St James's Park, London.

    How parakeets escaped and made Britain their home

    The bright green birds arrived in the 1970s, and they have since become part of the urban landscape

8 June 2024

  • Southern cassowary headshot, Daintree National Park, Queensland

    Why did the endangered cassowary cross the road? Because it could

    Queensland conservationists say the ‘world’s only bridge for a bird’ is a template for saving a species at risk of disappearing
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