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1,141 mammal species – 25 per cent of those known to science – are threatened with extinction, according to the IUCN. At least 76 have become extinct since...
Young people and wildlife
18th June 2010
"If a child hasn’t ever got their hands dirty looking for bugs, how can we expect them to care about the natural world?” RSPB president Kate Humble commented, after a survey revealed that young adults are increasingly disconnected from nature.
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Park managers in London are to sow grasses and wildflowers in an attempt to boost plummeting house sparrow populations. According to the RSPB, numbers of this species have...
“We hear a lot about how endangered tigers are, but great white sharks are pretty close to the same level.” Ronald O’Dor of Dalhousie University...
The Government has completely banned the use of Cypermethrin sheep dip, a pesticide that is estimated to have killed 1.5 billion freshwater animals a year before its...
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"Onlookers said they heard a whooshing sound and the birds just hit the ground.” Alison Sparkes of the RSPCA commented after 75 starlings crashed and died in a...
80 colonies of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly are now thought to exist in the UK, the lowest level since monitoring began. Extremely heavy rainfall in the summers of 2007...
77% of Britain’s swifts nest on houses, according to a survey carried out by the RSPB. It reveals the crucial role that home-owners play in conserving this summer...
The population of little egrets has grown by 811% in the past decade, according to a report, Waterbirds in the UK 2007/8.
