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Half of the more than 700 mountain gorillas left in the wild live in the Virunga range

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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The Yunnan banana, Musa itinerans, found in Asia from China to India, is the 24,200th species to be conserved for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank

24,200 down, 217,800 to go: pink banana is coup for Kew

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Royal Botanic Gardens hits 10% in quest to collect seeds of world's plants.

The meerkats' star has reached new heights but the animals first peered into our lives more than 20 years ago when David Attenborough introduced us to the curious creatures in the BBC documentary, Meerkats United

Beyond compare: kool kats

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Simon Usborne: Lifting TV ratings. Selling insurance. Scaring burglars. How meerkats conquered the world

Engineers are concerned about surface water flooding following heavy rainfall, like that in Catcliffe, near Sheffield, in 2007

UK looks to tropics for help reducing rain storm flood risk

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Porous pavements and open drainage ditches among measures identified

A photograph issued by Open University of an Euonymus Leaf Notcher - a rare shrub-eating moth never before seen in the UK. The moth was found by Katie Dobbins, 6, whose father Julian took a photograph of the furry moth after she found its body at their home in Upper Bucklebury, Berkshire.

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

Nature Notebook: The books' bold, highly stylised modernist dustwrappers are a key part of their attraction

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.

Atlantic bottlenose dolphins perform for the crowds in Las Vegas

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

A protection programme centred on the Gir forests has seen India's population of Asiatic lions increase to about 360 - but scientists fear the animals could be wiped out

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

A RSPB handout photo of a cuckoo, which has been added to the 'red list' of the UK's most threatened birds

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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