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  • Grey plover wading on a beach

    Birdwatch
    Birdwatch: in spring, the unshowy grey plover undergoes a transformation

    However, you will most likely have to venture to the polar tundra to see this striking wader at its black-bellied best
  • TSA Turtle In Pants<br>This photo provided by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shows a turtle in a box after a Pennsylvania man was caught with the turtle concealed in his pants when the TSA body scanner triggered an alarm in the area of the man’s groin on Friday, March 7, 2025, at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. (TSA via AP)

    TSA finds live turtle concealed in man’s pants at New Jersey airport

  • A bald eagle sits in a tree

    Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn

  • Zoe Williams

    I loved the Crufts dog show – apart from Clare Balding and the winner who was 50% cat

    Zoe Williams
  • An older woman on a beach holds a wooden sign with a mangrove plant and the words 'Guardianas vigilando' painted on it

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business

  • Eastern monarch butterfly population doubles in a year

  • Chicken manure can be classified as industrial waste, judge rules

  • A koala at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital who had emergency surgery on Wednesday just before they closed for the cyclone. Because "Laura Leaf" needed ICU care, one of the hospital nurses set up an ICU in her bedroom at home. Queensland. Australia

    When Cyclone Alfred forced a wildlife hospital to close, this rescue koala found a new place to recuperate

  • Helen Sullivan

    The nature of ...
    A beaver: to get attention they will slap the water with their tails

    Helen Sullivan
  • Salmon Event 2025 pixie image with dogs

    First Dog on the Moon
    Destroying the environment and sending species extinct is one thing, but now I can’t take my dogs to the beach!?

  • A bullfinch feeding on blossom.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A sunlit view of two hungry bullfinches

  • THE SUPERVET 2014- serie Tv documentaire Noel Fitzpatrick. Prod DB © Channel 4 - Blast! Films documentaire; documentary<br>2YMNFBX THE SUPERVET Date taken: 18 May 2019 serie Tv documentaire Noel Fitzpatrick. Prod DB © Channel 4 - Blast! Films documentaire; documentary

    This much I know
    Noel Fitzpatrick: ‘We often put on the radio and TV for the animals’

    The supervet talks about growing up on a farm in Ireland, learning the elusive language of elephants and his love of Led Zeppelin
  • A small elephant walking behind an older one photographed at night

    The age of extinction
    The secret life of the Congo rainforest – in pictures

    Using high-definition camera traps on trails in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki national park, Will Burrard-Lucas, a photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, has captured Africa’s most elusive and rarely seen animals
  • A red colobus monkey in the Gambia.

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife: a curious monkey, a Dorset beaver and a football rat

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • A wildcat at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland.

    Country diary
    Country diary: The Highland tiger who came to me

    Abernethy Forest, Cairngorms: Wildcats are critically endangered, but there is hope. I’ll keep my cameras out
  • a monarch butterfly rests on leaves

    Butterfly population in US shrinking by 22% over last 20 years, study shows

    Drop in line with rate of overall insect loss as scientists point to habitat loss, pesticide use and the climate crisis
  • Adult Baw Baw frogs with radio transmitter belt wrapped around its hips

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    ‘You just hope for the best’: rarely seen froglets – the length of a grain of rice – released into small patch of Victorian wilds

    Exclusive: More than 3,000 critically endangered Baw Baw frogs set free in a high-altitude forest to bolster dwindling population
    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘Slavish’ catch limits ignored scientific advice, say conservationists in case against Defra

    • Promise to phase out lead from UK game shooting has failed, study finds

    • Country diary
      Country diary: As spring progresses, herring gulls become more and more raucous

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