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Barbary macaques : threatened and unique.

05 December 2018

Forest lives are changing, with combined human/insect threats.

13 November 2017

The North Sea totally explored (twice) by OCEANA.

28 August 2017

Extinction or habitat management - the stark choice.

04 July 2017

Dingo rules - both kangaroos and nutrient supplies.

10 May 2017

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Bottom trawling for orange roughies to get green light?

Bottom trawling for orange roughies to get green light?

The roughy, slimehead (the US didn’t like that name,) or “deep-sea perch” is in trouble. Having been preserved to some extent for a while, some industrial-scale New Zealand fisheries seem...

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Pacific bluefin tuna nears a critical state.

Pacific bluefin tuna nears a critical state.

The sheer magnificence of a high-performance, 3m (9.8 feet) predator in the North Pacific should excite anybody, but many still prefer to feast on the last few tuna left, 80%...

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International Bat Weekend is Here!

International Bat Weekend is Here!

There are only18 species of bat in the islands of the UK, which is a poor record compared to European or North American numbers. They range from the 5g pipistrelle...

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Lobsters lose out to global warming

Lobsters lose out to global warming

This lady is in possession of the planktonic future of lobster larvae off Cape Cod. She is marked with a V-shaped notch to record her active breeding status. American lobster...

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Save Tropical Forest, NOW!

Save Tropical Forest, NOW!

The blue morpho male butterflies, in this case Morpho rhetenor, are iconic, representative of the high canopies in which they fly effortlessly out-of-reach. With the old giant trees almost all...

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Diversity of camels conserved for 3000 years.

Diversity of camels conserved for 3000 years.

The Silk Road or the Incense Routes were maintained not by humans alone, but by the well adapted camel. But dromedary origins were lost in the mists of the desert,...

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