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Can a law meant to protect Native American artefacts free an orca?

Can a law meant to protect Native American artefacts free an orca?

25 November 2020

Members of the Native American Lummi Nation consider a captive orca called Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut to be their kin. Now they are using extraordinary means to gain her release


The secret weapon in the war between pet cats and wildlife

The secret weapon in the war between pet cats and wildlife

28 October 2020

To stop cats killing billions of birds and small mammals every year, we must enlist the help of people who love them, which means getting inside the minds of cat owners


The endangered giants that still lurk in the world’s biggest rivers

The endangered giants that still lurk in the world’s biggest rivers

30 September 2020

The world's fresh waters used to teem with enormous fish. Their numbers are dwindling, but it is not too late to save the river monsters from extinction


Even nature has a price tag - and it's key to a more sustainable world

Even nature has a price tag - and it's key to a more sustainable world

3 June 2020

Ideas about natural capital and ecosystems services have altered how some governments value biodiversity – they could also help us build back better after lockdown


Dingoes are both pest and icon. Now there's a new reason to love them

Dingoes are both pest and icon. Now there's a new reason to love them

22 April 2020

Dingoes have been persecuted in Australia for centuries for killing livestock, but protecting them could benefit the environment and aid recovery from the devastating fires


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There is an answer to the world's deadliest human-elephant conflict

16 October 2019

Sri Lanka has the world's highest rate of human-elephant conflict – last year alone, it killed 70 people and 300 elephants. A simple solution can make all the difference, if people are willing to try it


Cheffois quarry

Forget pristine habitats - for biodiversity save abandoned quarries

4 September 2019

The best way to save Earth’s threatened wildlife could be to protect its most unglamorous and geologically diverse landscapes, from scrubland to exhausted mines


Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

23 January 2019

Humans once mated with Neanderthals so are we hybrids? How we see ourselves and the rest of nature is changing, raising the question of whether species even exist


tiger in lab

The day a Siberian tiger nearly killed me

7 November 2018

Pavel Fomenko patrols the icy and dangerous forests of Russia’s far east to protect its big cats. But the worst happened when he least expected it


Priya Singh

The rare-leopard spotter who accidentally caught gunmen in her traps

26 September 2018

Priya Singh spent months in the wilds of north-east India tracking elusive clouded leopards and marbled cats, but caught more than she bargained for in her camera traps


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