Plastic Pollution Up Dramatically in the North Pacific
Plastic ingestion in Northern Fulmars, and therefore plastic pollution in the North Pacific, has increased over the past 40 years.
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Q is for Quail
The British population is small, and rather ephemeral. Quail being our only migrant gamebird, numbers fluctuate hugely from year to year and depend strongly on conditions further south.
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Critical habitat for jaguars, but is it money well spent?
The jaguar’s current range stretches from the Sonoran Desert in Mexico to northern Argentina, but the jaguar does cross into the USA frequently.
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Flamingos Flee Lake Nakuru
The reason for the abrupt exit is a rise in water levels of as much as 2 metres to a high last experienced over 60 years ago. As water levels increase, the salinity of the water is reduced, which in turn reduces the abundance of algae.
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P is for: Pipits
I don’t know what unusual super power ‘meadow’ would suggest, but collectively pipits do seem to possess the power of invisibility: the phrase ‘little brown job’ may well have been invented to describe pipits.
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The Case Against Snaring
The design of the snare means that animals are garrotted and subjected to an agonisingly slow death. Frequently, it is non-target animals that are caught, including otters, badgers, deer, pine marten and even domestic cats and dogs.
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Kenya’s Tana River Delta under Threat
It is home to globally threatened birds and two threatened primates, as well as lions, hippos and elephants.
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O is for Owl
Chris Foster gives us his latest in the A to Z of British Birds series. This week… Owls.
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Turn the Volume Down: Noise Pollution Affects Trees Too
Scientific studies are beginning to prove that several species are altering their behaviour in response to the increase in volume.
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Last of the Lemurs?
Facing threats such as illegal logging and hunting, many species are heading towards extinction, but a new survey has revealed that the situation is far worse than previously realised and in fact, lemurs are now considered to be the most endangered group of mammals in the world.