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Rich pickings

Goats must go to save the Galápagos tortoises

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How many species do we need?

Give us the dough to crack whet genome

Review: Let's hear it for the cultivators

Whaling ban stays in place - for now

Trees help nature reclaim the slap heaps: In South Walkes, efforts to reclaim the black mountains of waste from coal mines have failed. A Bulgarian technique promises to do better

Whalers win the numbers game: Whales can be hunted withoutrisking extinction, according to a formula adopted by the InternationalWhaling Commission. Next year, commercial whalers could put to sea in force

Key nations defy whaling commission

In much of the Third World, farming evolved to minimise the effects of crop disease and drought. These methods conserve genes better than Western techniques and can produce just as much food: Farming goes back to its roots

Two weeks to save the planet: Do you need funds and workers to carry out field research? Or would you like to invest your money and your labour in a project that might do some good? Earthwatch may be the answer

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A very cultured chimpanzee