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[photographic credit: Edward Badley, Flickr] In 2014 the United Nations stated that by 2050, 66% of the world’s population is projected to be Urbanised. Cities are considered vital for development, and...
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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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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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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 a time where women were told that they couldn’t, or that they shouldn’t, one woman did. Click here to view: The Lady of the Lakes Promo from Olivia Frost on Vimeo. To many...
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A new scientific report from the University of Exeter (read here) has been shared widely on social media and wildlife news sites in the past few days and I thought I might share...
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I currently have a male Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) in my back garden, he has been there for at least two weeks now, probably longer. Every time I see him he is either rummaging...
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BBC Springwatch presenter Martin Hughes Games has accused Planet Earth 2 of being “a disaster for wildlife” in a recent Guardian article which has sparked a bit of a debate. He has labelled...
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Recently there was some research done on Alzheimer’s disease using a game that collated data from a vast number of people. It was revealed that if the research had been done in a...
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Wildlife populations across the globe have fallen by 58% in just over 40 years, according to the Living Planet assessment. The assessment is published every two years with the goal of assessing the...
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