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Roads drive bats away, new study shows

featured Roads drive bats away, new study shows

African Sheath-Tailed Bat via Shutterstock Major roads in the UK and Europe can cause big problems for protected bats, new research shows. Busy highways not only diminish the bat population,...

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The effect of wind turbines on bats

The effect of wind turbines on bats

Wind Turbines via Shutterstock As a child, I loved bats. They often came out at sunset, all at the same time, from the caves on the other side of the...

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The Battle of the Biomes

The Battle of the Biomes

Wildfire in savanna via Shutterstock The natural world is constantly in a flux with delicate states of equilibrium disturbed by the smallest of changes. The ecosystems that exist on earth...

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Romanian Ancient Woodland Needs Protection

Romanian Ancient Woodland Needs Protection

Romania's Virgin Forests; © Mircea Struteanu The Carpathian Mountains make up the second largest mountain range in Europe, spreading approximately 1500 kilometres from the Czech Republic to Romania. Although the...

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Dog Days in North Virginia

Dog Days in North Virginia

Coyote via Shutterstock Those colonists have gone and done it again, George. The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Center for Conservation in Washington DC have evidence that we really put the...

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Humpback Numbers Higher

Humpback Numbers Higher

Above is one humpback from a Costa Rican population who's recovered very well. The breaching behaviour shown attracts lots of tourists to areas as disparate as Ireland and Alaska; Credit...

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Coyote cross breeding threatens wolf survival

Coyote cross breeding threatens wolf survival

Coyote via Shutterstock The European settlement of North America was bad news for wolves, but good news for coyotes whose continued thriving is now threatening the very genetic identity of...

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Tuna Dilemma

Tuna Dilemma

An adult Bluefin tuna, (Thunnus thynnus) in the Mediterranean via Shutterstock 141 per cent of the permitted eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna catch has been landed in 2010. This figure is...

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Macaque monkeys on Mauritius, a sad monkey's tale

Macaque monkeys on Mauritius, a sad monkey's tale

Crab-eating macaque via Shutterstock Long tailed macaque monkeys (often called the crab-eating macaque in south-east Asia) live well on the island of Mauritius, and are considered non-native. Portuguese sailors took...

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Community incorporated in conservation process

Community incorporated in conservation process

Flag of Kenya via Shutterstock Kenya Forest Services has signed three crucial agreements with Community Forests Associations from three forest blocks in the World renowned Mau, Bahati and Ndundulu forests....

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