Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) show in a paper...
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Milner Centre scientists working as part of an international team found that, like humans, female...
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India’s focus on large carnivore conservation has mostly centred on forested national parks and...
Heatwaves risky for fish
A world-first study tracked how wild fish populations responded to a severe marine heatwave...
UK’s first ‘super’ National Nature Reserve created on Purbeck...
With the increasing need for a bigger, better and more joined-up approach to nature conservation...
How British wildlife greeted the warmest winter on record
Written on the final, frozen day of 1900, Thomas Hardy’s poem The Darkling Thrush describes a...
Keeping cats indoors could blunt adverse effects to wildlife
Birds alighting on driveways and baby bunnies munching on lawn grass should keep something in mind:...
Britain’s endangered native ponies could help habitats...
The UK’s semi-wild ponies are for the most part small, hairy characters whose physique and...
City fox and country fox
Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and the...
How to help red squirrels fight back against invasive greys –...
The red squirrel is the UK’s only native squirrel species. Unfortunately, they are now a very rare...
Deaf moths evolved noise-cancelling scales to evade predators
Some species of deaf moths can absorb as much as 85 per cent of the incoming sound energy from...
Seeds in Tibet face impacts from climate change
Seeds offer a level of resilience to the harmful effects of climate change in ecosystems across the...
Beavers are set to recolonise the UK – here’s how people...
For an animal that looks like a soggy fur ball with the feet of a duck in need of a pedicure and a...
Watching TV helps birds make better food choices
By watching videos of each other eating, blue tits and great tits can learn to avoid foods that...