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5 January 2025

  • The film star Brigitte Bardot

    ‘I demand she is spared’: Brigitte Bardot joins campaign to save wild boar

    The French movie star has written an open letter to rescue Rillette, the boar faced with being put down by the French authorities

4 January 2025

  • Veterinarian Dr Kimberly Vignette Herrin at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital in Sydney

    Black summer revisited
    ‘I sort of fell apart’: black summer bushfires’ toll on the vets and carers helping Australian wildlife

    They spent their lives and careers looking after animals and when the 2019-20 fires erupted they responded on the front lines. Veterinarians and carers recall those months – and the impact it has had since
  • Looking towards the beaver lodge at Lochan Mor in the Cairngorms.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Somewhere around this glorious loch, beavers are at work

    Rothiemurchus, Cairngorms: Reintroduced here after local extinction for 400 years, 10 pairs are settling in well – at least two even have kits
  • South Australian shark attack victim Lance Appleby

    As police search for the body of shark victim Lance Appleby, just how fearful should Australians be?

    Experts say long term trend towards more shark attacks is partly because of population growth, and that the risk remains low

3 January 2025

  • Three people stood in coats and jackets near water's edge water with bare trees in background.

    Back from the dead: the ‘zombie’ ponds repumping nature into Essex farmland

  • A young chimpanzee eats on an island during an outing in the Douala-Edea Natural Park in Marienberg, Cameroon.

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife in pictures: a rare warbler, a young chimp and sheltering joeys

2 January 2025

  • Whales in sea

    Grieving killer whale who carried calf’s body spotted again with dead baby

    Experts say sighting of orca in Puget Sound with second deceased calf is ‘devastating’ for ailing population
  • Grey-headed flying foxes on a branch over the Yarra River as photographed by Doug Gimesy

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Australia’s flying foxes are ‘curious, gentle and intelligent’ – and often misunderstood

    Endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes are ‘astonishing’ animals but misinformation is rife

    • The age of extinction
      Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows

    • Florida’s manatees are actually relative newcomers, historical research suggests

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘Extraordinary longevity’: great whales can live a lot longer than we thought – if we leave them alone

1 January 2025

  • A pied tamarin at the Sauim Castanheira Wildlife Refuge in Manaus.

    Fate of endangered monkey hinges on Brazilian city’s planning policy

    Pied tamarin has narrow range and is found only around borders of Manaus in the Amazon rainforest
  • A wolf in Sweden

    Sweden begins wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s population

    Five entire families can be killed, totalling 30 wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU law
  • A Turtle dove preening

    Phew, turtle doves: ban on annual shoot raises hopes for endangered bird

    Western European population has risen 25% with ban and some UK sites have seen promising increases

December 2024

  • The baby hedgehog that was actually a hat bobble

    2024: what happened next?
    ‘The woman was frantic – it hadn’t eaten or pooed’: what happened when a hat bobble was brought to a hedgehog rescue centre?

  • Helen Sullivan

    The nature of ...
    A cicada: ‘What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallised memory’

    Helen Sullivan
  • Joeys in Pam Turner's home sheltering from the Grampians bushfire

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    As the Grampians fires approached, 20 kangaroo joeys took shelter in a living room. Experts say others aren’t so lucky

  • Aerial view of a container filled with illegally obtained wild bird eggs seized by Essex police, UK

    The age of extinction
    Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history

  • Summer essentials
    Consciously uncoupling: what drives rates of animal divorce?

  • Notebook
    Sheffield’s museums show how art comes to life when it is connected to place

    Rowan Moore
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