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Insects �134bn, coral �109bn: UN puts a value on resources
Michael McCarthy: Pioneering report equates biodiversity to cash in hope of encouraging conservation.
Inside Nature
Defra: Nature reserves set to go private and Kew suffers
Thursday, 21 October 2010
The privatisation of England's 224 National Nature Reserves is a likely outcome of the 30 per cent cut in the budget of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew budget will also be cut.
Save the tiger and make a killing, UN tells the world
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Michael McCarthy: Report hopes to persuade nations that protecting species is a money-spinner.
Chris Packham: Born to be wild
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
He was the young gun who made nature TV cool. Now, as the presenter of Autumnwatch, Chris Packham has come of age. Nicholas Milton meets him
Thames: The tale that the river told
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Alice-Azania Jarvis: Fifty years ago, the Thames was biologically dead. Its transformation has huge implications.
Back from the brink: otters return to our rivers
Monday, 18 October 2010
Improved water quality and legislation have boosted the population of this elusive and much-loved animal.
Conference tackles loss of biodiversity
Monday, 18 October 2010
Tackling global loss of wildlife is as big a challenge as addressing climate change, conservation experts have warned as an international meeting gets under way aimed at stopping species and habitats vanishing across the world.
A blaze of glory: The remarkable true story behind autumn’s greatest show of colour
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Under constant attack by the elements... One vote away from the chainsaw... That Westonbirt – the national arboretum – survives, is down to the work of one man. David Randall pores over his diaries
New species of fish discovered in ocean's deepest depths
Friday, 15 October 2010
A new species has been discovered in a part of the ocean previously thought to be entirely free of fish, scientists said yesterday.
The world is not enough
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Michael McCarthy: Report reveals how fast we are consuming the Earth's resources – and the dire consequences.
Come in, No 1363, your 6,200-mile swim is over
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
A humpback whale has travelled the longest distance recorded for any mammal, swimming across nearly a quarter of the globe between two breeding grounds.
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