“I watch these beautiful animals walk the path toward extinction every day,” keeper James Mwenda tells me. He’s out in the Kenyan bush, swatting flies.…
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There are some animals about which it is easy to forget the fact that they have teeth, so that every time they flash their grins,…
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Since the idea of rewilding took hold, it has generally been seen as a rural pursuit involving withdrawal from farmland so that animals and vegetation…
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The last known male giant Swinhoe’s softshell turtle is no longer alone on the planet after the discovery of a female of his species in…
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Officials in Gibraltar are making daily patrols of the territory’s Barbary macaque population amid fears that the iconic monkeys could be vulnerable to the coronavirus.…
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A growing number of “cryptic species” hiding in plain sight have been unmasked in the past year, driven in part by the rise of DNA…
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Inspired by the story of the hedgehog highways in an English village and impressed by the contributions to our urban wildlife gallery, we asked Guardian…
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Leave your phone behind During lockdown, I have really valued my daily walks. I can’t recommend enough that you should leave your phone and any…
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The global food system is on course to drive rapid and widespread ecological damage with almost 90% of land animals likely to lose some of…
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