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Colorado river

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Rivers and forests need the same legal rights we grant to people

Environmental campaigners want the Colorado river to get the right to sue in US courts. It's not as crazy as it sounds, says Richard Schiffman

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Bird of prey

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People who illegally kill birds of prey are getting away with it

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Sharks now protected no matter whose waters they swim in

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Sharks now protected no matter whose waters they swim in

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A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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A cloud of flying insects

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Steep decline of wasps and other flying nasties is a bad sign

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Beetle

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Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

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Butchery of a black rhino wins Wildlife Photographer award

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Butchery of a black rhino wins Wildlife Photographer award

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Earth artwork

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Is positive thinking the way to save the planet?

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Seal pups get separated from their mums by icebreaker ships

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Seal pups get separated from their mums by icebreaker ships

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Cutting off a shark fin

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Banning shark fin soup in the US is bad for shark conservation

A proposed US ban on the sale of shark fins could backfire and make life worse for some of the planet's most imperilled species, says Lesley Evans Ogden

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Plan to save Great Barrier Reef from encroaching farm pollution

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Christmas Island’s only echolocating bat has gone extinct

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Wolves and bears to be slaughtered in Romania once again

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Bats crash into windows because of a glitch with their 'sonar'

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