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conservation

Stuffed parrots

Life

London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance

A Wellcome Collection exhibition demonstrates why the idea of nature as separate to our own world deserves to go into the history books – or at least a museum

Culture

An adult gorilla holding a young gorilla

Life

Majority of primate species may vanish in next 25 to 50 years

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Scimitar-horned oryx in Chad

Life

Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild

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Arabian leopard

Life

Rare Arabian leopards forced out by frankincense harvesters

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Seychelles warbler singing in a tree

Life

Biodiversity betrayal as nations fail miserably on conservation

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fishing boat

Life

The plan to ban fishing in more than half the world's oceans

Insight

Caterpillars on a leaf in the foreground, with Richard Toft in the background wearing an orange high-vis jacket

Life

New Zealand is the first country to wipe out invasive butterfly

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Platanista gangetica gangetica river dolphin

Life

Rare river dolphins get trapped in fishing nets as waters drop

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Africa’s tallest tree measuring 81m found on Mount Kilimanjaro

Life

Africa’s tallest tree measuring 81m found on Mount Kilimanjaro

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A seal on its back underwater, close to the seafloor

Life

Watch some of the most endangered seals caught napping underwater

We used to think they only slept on land in caves, now endangered Mediterranean monk seals have been caught sleeping underwater for the first time

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Life

Hacker, the humpback whale who got tangled in an internet cable

Regulars

Earth

80,000 reindeer have starved to death as Arctic sea ice retreats

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Life

UK red squirrels are carrying leprosy and have been for decades

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Life

Hundreds more species than we thought might be endangered

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