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From the BBC Wildlife Archive
FROM THE BBC WILDLIFE ARCHIVE: Spring 2016 Born Free Meru National Park has been associated with lions since George Adamson and his wife Joy raised an orphaned cub called Elsa to adulthood, and successfully released her back into the wild. Joy wrote about Elsa in her book Born Free, which was made into an Oscar-winning […]
Damselfish behaviour is influenced by rats
Loss of seabirds through rat predation affects reef fish hostility and could have wider impacts
Opinion: Mark Carwardine
“Without anti-poaching patrols, there would be no rhinos left to protect”
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Poo corner
Greater sage-grouse
Reel in a warbler
The distinctive song of this summer migrant has its own name
Female of the species
Lucy Cooke on nature’s most martyred mother
News: Up – Down
Just add water All new developments across England will now have to include mini wetlands such as ponds and floodwater storage lakes that help to prevent flooding of homes and businesses. The move, which will benefit freshwater aquatic life, including frogs and newts, has been welcomed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, which has been […]
Loud and proud
Secretive corncrakes with a scraping call arrive in the UK this month Tweet of the Day An extended version featuring the corncrake IN APRIL, RARE CORNCRAKES RETURN FROM their wintering grounds in Africa. Once known as land rails, these streaky, moorhen-like birds like to creep through dense meadow vegetation, which makes them infuriatingly difficult to […]