Wildlife
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Air and water quality, biodiversity and countryside would be at risk, Commons environment select committee report says
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Notebook Would it kill you to say hello on a country walk?
Patrick BarkhamI greet deer and blackbirds – so there is no way I would ignore other walkers. It’s sad if we need a social media campaign to encourage friendliness
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 18 April 1916: In the fields primroses are plentiful, and jack-in-the-hedge and silver stitchwort whiten many a roadside ditch
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Stephen Moss on the steady return of the long-distance migrants to his Somerset patch
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Conservationists are putting fragments of information together to learn more about this enigmatic winged creature that only three living people have seen
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Country Diary: South Uist Loud as a flock of chattering starlings but more mellow, the constant chirruping can be heard from well down the track
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is trying to collect and inventory all of the region’s urban wildlife, some of which hitched a ride to the metropolis
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Artificially-created scent sexually confuses female moths, subsequently stopping them breeding and laying fabric damaging eggs in clothes
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Team including Tim Flannery dub previously unknown species, which weighs nearly half a kilogram, Rattus detentus – Latin for ‘detained’
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Trip by Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge to Kaziranga national park reopens debate over shoot-to-kill policy enforced against rhino poachers
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An octopus escaped from a New Zealand aquarium this week. But we should not be surprised – octopuses can squeeze through tiny spaces
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Staff believe the common New Zealand octopus fled its enclosure when the lid was left ajar and headed to freedom down a pipe that leads to the sea
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Local authorities say snake is initally estimated at 8m long, beating the previous Guinness world record for a snake of the same species called Medusa
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Documentarian’s message rings especially loud for Australians, who have the privilege and duty to look after this natural wonder
More than 1,000 species have been moved due to human impact