The rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain are a bleak scene of vast arable fields and tightly grazed pasture dotted with scores of sheep. In…
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Wolves are thriving again across western Europe. Is it time to bring them back to the UK?
Across the River Wolf and along several miles of muddy Devon lanes lies Derek Gow’s lair. Inside a crepuscular barn filled with a pungent aroma,…
View More Wolves are thriving again across western Europe. Is it time to bring them back to the UK?‘Like unscrambling an egg’: scientists alter DNA to save Scottish wildcats
Scientists are preparing plans to restore the fortunes of Scotland’s threatened Highland wildcats – by identifying and removing DNA they have acquired from domestic cats.…
View More ‘Like unscrambling an egg’: scientists alter DNA to save Scottish wildcats‘A joy to watch’: UK rewilding brings endangered species back from brink
Vast expanses of rolling hilltops may be easy on the eye. But look a bit closer and many are in fact bleak landscapes – overgrazed…
View More ‘A joy to watch’: UK rewilding brings endangered species back from brink‘I got to know the wolf’: how Spain’s shepherds are learning to live with their old enemy
In the pre-dawn darkness of Sierra de la Culebra, Zamora, Spain, a sudden howl pierces the cold. More join in, until the baying chorus echoes…
View More ‘I got to know the wolf’: how Spain’s shepherds are learning to live with their old enemyWildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UK
Nearly 20 young wildcats have been released into the wild in a pine forest in the Scottish Highlands, in the first phase of a project…
View More Wildcats released in Scottish Highlands in effort to prevent extinction in UKWeed-choked pavements anger residents as ‘rewilding’ divides UK towns and cities
Brighton is home to the UK’s only Green member of parliament and is outwardly a bastion of progressive politics. Wild spaces here are not only…
View More Weed-choked pavements anger residents as ‘rewilding’ divides UK towns and citiesBritain’s surging deer population is causing an ecological disaster. I have a solution: wolves | George Monbiot
What’s missing from this picture? I mean the picture of rural Britain many of us hold in our heads, whether it be a thatched and…
View More Britain’s surging deer population is causing an ecological disaster. I have a solution: wolves | George MonbiotMaking tracks: how linking patches of wilderness is saving Borneo’s wildlife
In 2011, the German conservationist Robert Risch was hiking along the banks of a river at the northern limits of Tabin wildlife reserve, home to…
View More Making tracks: how linking patches of wilderness is saving Borneo’s wildlifeDancing Capercaillie bird makes a tentative comeback in Scotland
It is a discotheque for Britain’s biggest type of grouse. Before dawn, male capercaillie will begin their courtship rituals, their black tail feathers erect and…
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