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Gorilla warfare: The battle to save one of Africa's rarest animals
Half of the world's remaining mountain gorillas live in Eastern Congo's Virunga National Park. Now a battle is being fought between the park rangers who protect these extraordinary animals and the criminal gangs who are burning down their habitat around them
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Thursday, 15 October 2009
Royal Botanic Gardens hits 10% in quest to collect seeds of world's plants.
Beyond compare: kool kats
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Simon Usborne: Lifting TV ratings. Selling insurance. Scaring burglars. How meerkats conquered the world
UK looks to tropics for help reducing rain storm flood risk
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Porous pavements and open drainage ditches among measures identified
Six-year-old girl discovers Asian moth in UK
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
A shrub-eating moth has been discovered in the UK for the first time - thanks to the keen eye of a six-year-old girl.
Michael McCarthy: Going cuckoo over New Nats books
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
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One in 40,000: first veggie spider discovered
Monday, 12 October 2009
Steve Connor: It jumps about, cheats the system and eats nectar-filled leaf tips rather than other animals
Peak District plateau is National Nature Reserve
Monday, 12 October 2009
Kinder Scout, the famous plateau in the heart of the Peak District, has been officially declared a National Nature Reserve.
Dying to make us happy: The bloody truth behind the dolphinarium
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Ever since 'Flipper' died in his arms, Richard O'Barry has been on a mission to stop the killing and capture of dolphins. This month, as Andrew Johnson reports, that ambition moves one step closer – when the annual slaughter in Taiji, Japan, is exposed to the world in a new film
Feud over lions puts a nation's pride at stake
Friday, 9 October 2009
Indian politicians argue over how best to protect the endangered big cats of Gujarat
African probe into troubling UK wildlife mystery
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Michael McCarthy: Why are some of our best-loved birds, all of them summer visitors, plunging in numbers?
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