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The St Helena olive became extinct in 2003. © Rebecca Cairns-Wicks

Hundreds of plants wiped out in the last 250 years

Swift Cambridgeshire. © Ben Andrew/RSPB

Swifts arriving later than usual due to bad weather

Hummingbird hawk moth. © Steve Maskell/Butterfly Conservation.

Moths have a bad reputation despite ecological importance

Plastic straws. © Kyryl Gorlov

Ban on some single-use plastics in England

White-tailed bumblebee. © Pieter Haringsma

Bumblebees suffered in the extreme weather of 2018

Orcas. © Steve Truluck

Orca Watch 2019 sees a high diversity of cetaceans

Goldfinch. © Edmund Fellowes/BTO

Study reveals the benefits of feeding garden birds

Festival of Nature. © BNHC

Festival of Nature set to flourish

Eastern quoll. © Aussie Ark

Quolls released on mainland Australia

Singing robin. © Ben Queenborough/Getty

Springwatch team launch new citizen science project

Springwatch presenters. © Jo Charlesworth/BBC

When is Springwatch on TV? The team return to Cairngorms National Park to celebrate spring

Release of a lynx named Goru into the wild in Slovenia. © Janez Tarman

Lynx translocated to save endangered population

Gordon Buchanan in Rondônia, Brazil. © Freddie Claire

When is Equator from the Air on TV?

Mussaurus hatchling skeleton. © Dr Andrew Cuff

Dinosaur species changed locomotion as it grew