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Over 1.5 million flamingos gather on the soda flats of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania

A Perfect Planet review: Attenborough's new show is one of his best

14 January 2021

David Attenborough documentary A Perfect Planet blends earth science with dazzling images of flamingos, finches and frogs to reveal how natural forces have nurtured life


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


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


Wallace & Gromit's creators make new animation to try to save the seas

Wallace & Gromit's creators make new animation to try to save the seas

15 January 2020

Olivia Colman and Helen Mirren have teamed up with the creators of Wallace & Gromit in a film called Turtle Journey to raise awareness about climate change and ocean pollution


David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

25 October 2019

Seven Worlds, One Planet, David Attenborough’s stunning celebration of Earth’s biodiversity, prepares a new generation to save a beautiful world


We're pushing 28,000 species closer to extinction

We're pushing 28,000 species closer to extinction

18 July 2019

More than 28,000 species are threatened with extinction due to humans over-exploiting wildlife, according to the IUCN red list


Rare footage of a beaver gnawing through a tree in North Yorkshire

Rare footage of a beaver gnawing through a tree in North Yorkshire

20 June 2019

Rare footage shows a Eurasian beaver in North Yorkshire gnawing through a tree trunk and felling the tree in just 15 minutes


David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty

David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty

4 April 2019

The veteran naturalist lays the blame for Earth’s increasingly fragile ecosystem on humans, yet the stunning visuals in Netflix’s Our Planet add little to the genre


Migrating wildebeest

‘Devil weeds’ threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti

13 June 2017

Exotic plants have escaped from tourist lodges, invading and displacing the grasses on which millions of large, wild animals depend for food in East Africa


Quit nature to save wolves and bears? There are better ways

Quit nature to save wolves and bears? There are better ways

25 May 2017

Wild predators bounce back as nations modernise, people shift to cities and attitudes change. But we don't have to seal ourselves off to save them, says Niki Rust


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