Wildlife
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Elephant conservation Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. Where is the outrage?
Sean WillmoreEvery year more than 100 wildlife rangers are murdered in the line of duty. Why do they get so little support? And where is the outrage?
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Laysan albatross known as Wisdom is also the world’s oldest known breeding bird in the wild and has had a few dozen chicks
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Deforestation, civil wars and hunting have put giraffes on the vulnerable species list. Now we must show these creatures the other side of human nature
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The giraffe is at risk of extinction after a large decline in numbers over the past 30 years, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
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Latest update to the red list of threatened species shows world’s tallest animal is on the brink, but some good news for Madagascan freshwater fish
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Country Diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire The birds’ summer song has become a spit of rage, broken chirrups rendered to our ears as “get lost!”
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Adelaide zoo is hoping to support 34-year-old orangutan Karta through her pregnancy as she has lost six infants in the past
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Weatherwatch December 1978, on the Dutch polders and in the Baltic, was so cold large flocks of waterfowl and raptors left for the UK
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EU president abandons plan to overhaul flagship birds and habitats directives following a huge public campaign
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Country diary: Duncansby Head, John O’Groats As the wind rises the timbre alters and I struggle to place it – the howling of wolves, infants wailing, dissonant chords on a pipe organ?
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Huge flock of migratory birds landed on acidic waters of an open pit mine where employees attempted to scare them off
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Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk They rose and fell, swaying as if one organism were breathing slowly, and as they approached they never made sound
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Singer-songwriter and her partner Jen Cloher raise money to help revitalise habitat of Australia’s blue-banded bee
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An expert on Australian native species says birds can have empathy, grieve after the death of a partner and form long-term friendships
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Scientists fear that neonicotinoid manufacturers are copying tobacco industry tactics in a bid to end the moratorium on this devastating chemical
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Sacha Dench, known as the ‘human swan’ completes her three-month-long paramotor journey from Russia to the UK on Monday
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The official start of winter was heralded by days of sharp sunshine. Country Life’s editor at large celebrates the season’s natural beauty
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Country diary: Leys Castle, Inverness The carcass would not last long with so many scavengers around and I expected that night a fox would carry it off to eat at leisure
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In what could be the most closely scrutinised biological control project in Australia, a 2mm wasp is being released to control a deadly ant infestation
Country diary A time for dinky birds and winter-kings