#Conservation
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Articles (19)
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🇬🇧 I went to rural Wales to bathe in starlight and the Milky Way blew me away
[United Kingdom]
I join two tourists in the mountains to immerse ourselves in the wonders of the night sky with a star guide.
Related: #Astrotourism, #Wellness -
🇺🇸 Trumps get okay for Irish golf ballroom but must help protect snails
[USA]
Related: #Development, #Environmental Protection
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🇬🇧 How an annual ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 virgin queens is ensuring the revival of Europe’s dark bee
[United Kingdom]
<p>The Belgian ceremony attracts beekeepers from the Netherlands, France and Germany keen to boost dark bee numbers and stop the spread of the hybrid honeybee</p><p>Every summer, 1,000 virgin queens d...
Related: #Biodiversity, #Sustainable Agriculture -
🇬🇧 Rare-breed horse centre cuts back amid cost woes
[United Kingdom]
The stud continues but a visitor centre and cafe closes as the rare-breed centre takes stock.
Related: #Economic challenges, #Heritage preservation -
🇺🇸 These shy, scaly anteaters are the most trafficked mammals in the world
[USA]
Conservationists are raising the plight of the pangolin, a scaly anteater found in parts of Africa and Asia that is the most trafficked mammal in the world
Related: #Wildlife trafficking, #Traditional medicine -
🇬🇧 Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years
[United Kingdom]
<p>Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants</p><p>Giant tortoises, the life-giving engineers of remote small island ecosystem...
Related: #Ecosystem Restoration, #Species Recovery, #Human Impact -
🇬🇧 New Zealand bug of the year: moth named Avatar after mining threat crowned winner
[United Kingdom]
<p>Arctesthes avatar moth, which won nearly half of the votes, was discovered in 2012 and is critically endangered</p><p>A tiny critically endangered moth, named after the Avatar films because of the ...
Related: #Biodiversity, #Mining controversy, #Public engagement -
🇺🇸 Teddy Roosevelt’s Family Urges G.O.P. to Protect Public Lands
[USA]
In a rare letter to Republican senators, four descendants of the former president oppose mining near a wilderness area in Minnesota.
Related: #Political Legacy, #Public Lands -
🇺🇸 Didn’t we learn anything from ‘Bambi’? Wiping out Catalina’s deer would be wrong
[USA]
'Why are mule deer deemed less worthy than cougars? Don't we teach our children that all animals have a purpose on our planet?' writes an L.A. Times reader.
Related: #Animal Rights, #Environment -
🇬🇧 'Extraordinary' beavers deployed to help 'restore nature'
[United Kingdom]
Half a dozen beavers have been legally released at two sites in Somerset in a bid to restore a river and wetland.
Related: #Environment, #Wildlife -
🇬🇧 ‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers
[United Kingdom]
<p>Release into Helman Tor reserve marks historical first for keystone species hunted to extinction in UK 400 years ago</p><p>Shivering and rain-drenched at the side of a pond in Cornwall, a huddle of...
Related: #Environment, #Wildlife -
🇺🇸 'Rare sighting' of walrus on rocks off Fife coast
[USA]
The walrus was spotted near Elie on 31 January but it was not made public in order to protect the animal from onlookers and drones.
Related: #Wildlife, #Environment -
🇬🇧 Police probe after golden eagle found with shotgun injuries
[United Kingdom]
Four-year-old Hamlet was discovered injured by a gamekeeper on an estate in Stanhope, near Tweedsmuir.
Related: #Wildlife Crime, #Law Enforcement -
🇬🇧 Police launch investigation after golden eagle found with shotgun injuries
[United Kingdom]
A police investigation is under way after a four-year-old golden eagle was shot in the Scottish Borders.
Related: #Wildlife Crime, #Law Enforcement -
🇺🇸 Nature: Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska
[USA]
For all the romantics: This Sunday, we leave you in Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge - just 5 miles east of Valentine, Nebraska. Videographer: Kevin Kjergaard
Related: #Environment, #Travel -
🇺🇸 Saalumarada Thimmakka Dies; Planted and Nurtured Thousands of Trees
[USA]
Believed to be 113, she spent decades building an environmental legacy in India, inspired by her grief at being unable to conceive children.
Related: #Environment, #Obituary -
🇺🇸 Meet the women protecting India's snow leopards
[USA]
The women brave biting cold to count and conserve a predator once seen as a threat in their villages.
Related: #Environment, #Women Empowerment -
🇺🇸 Elusive carnivore, once thought to be extinct, captured on camera
[USA]
The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.
Related: #Wildlife, #Biodiversity -
🇺🇸 Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss, scientists say
[USA]
Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.
Related: #Animal Adaptation, #Climate Change