Wildlife
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Travel blogger Isabelle Fabre had an extremely close encounter with a great white shark while kitesurfing off the West Australian coast
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Australia is one of the worst performing countries in terms of protecting its ecoregions. Koalas are a litmus test for conservation of a habitat in crisis
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Anti-whaling campaign group alleges it photographed Japanese whalers carrying out a slaughter inside Australia’s Antarctic whale sanctuary
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A study of the whales, one of only three species whose older females stop reproducing, claims competition between offspring may be the cause
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The outdoor industry is leading the fight to protect America’s public lands from being developed for gas and oil
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Country diary: Airedale, West Yorkshire A book from a century ago tells me when I might hear the ‘spring’ songs of each common songbird
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Fighting meerkats, a posing leopard and rescued turtles are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Country Diary: Langstone, Hampshire As the sparrowhawk swoops, corvids explode into the air like a firework starburst
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Letters: Does George Monbiot really want all his food to come from City-based absentee landlords or overseas corporate agribusiness?
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The threat posed to bees by neonicotinoid pesticides is greater than perceived in 2013 when the EU adopted a partial ban, new report concludes
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Recordings of New Zealand yellowhammer accents enable scientists to hear how their British relatives might have sounded 150 years ago
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Country Diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire n the concrete underpass, chemicals leach and stain, yet here the sun can pierce blight with beauty
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Coral in the Sekisei lagoon in Okinawa has turned brown and is covered with algae, according to a government study
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Search under way after marsupial startles recycling centre worker who thought it was a large rat
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Boreholes set up by local conservationists are saving drought-stricken elephants in Hwange national park
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Newly recognised species given the name ‘Skywalker hoolock gibbon’ by the team that proved it was distinct from other Chinese gibbons
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Wildlife officers warn heavy rains influencing ‘unexpected’ crocodile movements after 1.5 metre reptile initially mistaken for palm frond
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Rusty patched bumblebee population plunged nearly 90% since the late 1990s
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Monkey’s unusual behaviour is only the second recorded observation of sexual interaction between distantly related wild animals
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Snow leopards are showing up on camera traps in places they’d never been seen before – thanks to an innovative programme in Kyrgyzstan.
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Small birds were observed travelling to as many as 24 different breeding sites in Alaska within six weeks, further than flying from Paris to Moscow
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Notebook Tilikum and Granny are dead. Here’s why you should care about these killer whales
Patrick BarkhamThe documentary Blackfish challenged attitudes to our treatment of orcas, but these deaths should warn against complacency
Notes & Theories What lies beneath: discovering surprising jewels in the North Sea