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This crocodile emerging from the gloom sure seems happy to see you

Smiling American crocodile shows off its teeth – but although specimens can grow 6 metres long, the species rarely launches unprovoked attacks on people

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How dodgy sausages are saving a cute marsupial from toxic toads

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Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

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Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

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EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it

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EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it

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Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

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Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

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Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

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Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

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Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

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Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

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A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

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A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

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A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide

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A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide

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Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon

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Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon

Ever since Colombia signed a historic peace deal with the FARC guerrillas, farmers and criminal gangs have been burning its portion of the Amazon rainforest

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The birds of South Georgia are finally safe from marauding rats

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The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

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Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads

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Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

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