Wildlife
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A tiny wasp could save Christmas Island’s spectacular red crabs from crazy antsIn what could be the most closely scrutinised biological control project in Australia, a 2mm wasp is being released to control a deadly ant infestation
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Lost little penguin rescued from drain in Sydney's inner west – videoA lost little penguin has been rescued by RSPCA NSW after becoming stuck in a stormwater drain in the inner western Sydney suburb of Haberfield
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Shark net exemption granted in 'national interest', Josh Frydenberg saysStart to tourism season prompts environment minister to override federal law and allow the nets in NSW
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Planet Earth II a form of therapy for viewers, says AttenboroughVeteran broadcaster says BBC nature show gives audiences respite from their concerns about the world
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Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told they’re nuts'The Thylacine Awareness Group is ‘dedicated to the research, recognition and conservation of our most elusive apex predator’ – declared extinct in 1986
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'Walking sharks' at greater risk of extinction than previously thoughtNew analysis of nine species that ‘walk’ by night on shallow reefs shows their range is much smaller than was known
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Our last green corridors are being paved into parking lots, as predicted by Joni Mitchell. Will we know what we had when it’s gone?Park and flood: why do we let planners pave over our green valleys?
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Madrid to double farmers' compensation fund for wolf attacksWolf attacks on animals in region around Spanish capital up from 91 to 209 in a year, prompting rise in reimbursement budget
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Bobby: the gorilla on the wrong side of the lawThe western lowland gorilla was smuggled from Africa to Italy in the 1980s. As taxidermy, he is part of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland
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Rare miniature monkeys stolen from Symbio wildlife park – videoThree pygmy marmosets, including one that was only four weeks old, were stolen from the park late last week
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Anger as Japanese skating rink freezes thousands of fish into ice as gimmickThe feature at Space World in Kitakyushu is forced to close after anger at ‘disrespect for life’ and ‘lack of morality’
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Sydney brothers plead guilty over theft of rare miniature monkeysJesse, 26, and Jackson George, 23, pleaded guilty to planning to sell the pygmy marmosets taken from Symbio wildlife park
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Baby monkey stolen from NSW zoo found by policePolice stop car, arrest two men and find four-week-old marmoset monkey dependent on mother’s milk
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A solitary little egret is an elegant sentinel on the muddy creekCountry diary: Poppit Sands, Cardigan Often I encounter him fishing here, with an oystercatcher or redshank for company, watching acutely, spearing for small fish and crustaceans.
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The week in wildlife - in picturesA newborn Sitatunga calf and an orange-bellied parrot are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Beavers given native species status after reintroduction to ScotlandMove hailed as first formal reintroduction of a once native mammal in the UK
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Seaweed: marine life coming ashorePlantwatch Industry has long harvested some of the 700 seaweed species in British waters, but are large-scale algae farms on the horizon?
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All the colours of a November eveningCountry diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire There is something about the combination of sky-blue, red and black that fascinates me – I don’t understand why
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Scientists scale trees in desperate attempt to save orange-bellied parrotCritically endangered bird – down to just 14 in the wild – not helped by being ‘morons’ with poor survival instincts
Country diary Life and death on a Highland road