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Trade in mammoth ivory 'is fuelling elephant slaughter'
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Michael McCarthy: Conservationists fear that legal trade is being used as a front for laundering of poached tusks.
Fifth of world's plant species 'at risk of extinction'
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
More than a fifth of the world's plant species are under threat of extinction, a global assessment reveals today.
The Independent's Nature Club: A month on the wild side
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
In the latest dispatch from The Independent's Nature Club, readers report back on their recent wildlife highlights
GM maize 'has polluted rivers across the United States'
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the water of the surrounding environment.
Revealed: The rural flies with a taste for city flesh
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Jeremy Laurance: They are small, winged, have a thirst for human blood and can deliver a painful bite.
Australia faces worst plague of locusts in 75 years
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Paul Rodgers: Ideal breeding conditions for grasshoppersare expected to cost farmers billions
The Eden Project? No, it's Chester Zoo
Friday, 24 September 2010
Kevin Rawlinson: Visitors to �67m biodome will be able to experience life in a Congolese rainforest
England's wildlife 'needs £1bn protection fund'
Friday, 24 September 2010
The losses to England's wildlife and the threat of climate change are now so serious that a new strategy worth £1bn a year is needed to tackle the problems, a report warns today.
Putin seeks accord over Arctic energy
Friday, 24 September 2010
Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, urged Arctic nations yesterday to cut a deal on how to explore the region's rich mineral resources, and dismissed dire warnings of looming battles over its oil and gas wealth.
Bypasses seal deal for eels to return to Britain
Thursday, 23 September 2010
They are as fragile as their name suggests, yet glass eels survive being hurled about by terrifying storms as they evade sharp-toothed predators on a 4,000-mile, three-year odyssey from the North Atlantic
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