• An editing error had us introducing beavers to Banff, which is in Aberdeenshire, when they are in fact being reintroduced to Bamff, Perthshire (25 August, p 42).
• We said that of surviving gorillas, “roughly half are in the Virunga mountains and the rest of Uganda” (25 August, p 5). That should have read “Virunga National Park“.
• The fisheries minister of Iceland is Einar Guðfinnsson, not Guofinnsson (1 September, p 7).
• Apologies to readers whose emails to letters@newscientist.com bounced from 1 to 3 September. The megabyte-a-minute of junk jamming the inbox at the time has now abated.
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