The graceful Dugong. Jin Kemoole/Flickr, CC BY-ND By Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Cardiff University; Benjamin L. Jones, Cardiff University, and Richard K.F. Unsworth, Swansea University From knowing where animals live, to which plants provide what...
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I’m moving away from my usual amphibian/reptile conservation based posts to talk about something I feel is very important, so I will keep it short. It may be no surprise to some of...
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It’s a shocking statistic, but a recent study published in Science Magazine found that three quarters of the world’s honey is in fact infected with bee-killing pesticides. There is a specific group of pesticides known...
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According to researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand, yes they could. The Yellow-Eyed Penguin or ‘Hoiho’, native to New Zealand has seen its numbers dramatically decrease in recent years to...
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Okay, so I don’t usually dedicate much time on this blog to international stories but on this occasion, the tale is far too interesting to ignore. New research released this week in Science details how, over...
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A new species has developed on the Galapagos Islands, and scientists have been lucky enough to observe its development over the past 36 years. On the Daphne Major, an Island in the Galapagos...
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Winter is heavily underway and the days are getting darker; feeling a need for mention of something less frosty and a hint of summer nostalgia, I turned my attention to the sun in...
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For the last 5000+ years there has been two integral parts of human society, social and economic. Humans are the most rapidly developing organisms on the planet, conquering land sea and sky through...
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In 2008, a rather large book titled ‘Threated Amphibians of the World’ was published by the IUCN that contained summaries of all of the amphibians that had been assigned IUCN Red List categories...
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One of the UK’s rarest birds is booming again across the country. The beautiful bittern, was once considered extinct in the UK, but now conservationists believe their population is at a record high....
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