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African bird conservation improves lives
Posted: 25 May 2013A BirdLife project in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa has been shown to significantly improve the livelihoods of local people.
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Natural England strikes again!
Posted: 24 May 2013After yesterday's revelation that Natural England has been allowing the culling of a protected species by shooting estates, an even worse, long term case has been exposed.
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Buzzards secretly controlled on shooting estate
Posted: 23 May 2013Despite a public outcry about the proposed culling of Common Buzzards, Natural England has secretly enabled a shooting estate to destroy their eggs this spring.
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'60 per cent of wildlife in decline'
Posted: 22 May 2013A 'health check' of the nation's wildlife has revealed declines in more than 60 per cent of all species in Britain over the last half century.
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Penguins lost flight to save energy
Posted: 21 May 2013New research has shown that the flightlessness of penguins is largely due to the amount of energy needed to hunt fish and avoid predators.
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Morecambe Bay to be 'bioblitzed'
Posted: 20 May 2013Conservationists at Morecambe are attempting to record as much of the wildlife present in one day as possible, in an event termed a 'bioblitz'.
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Gillnets prove fatal to seabirds
Posted: 19 May 2013Long-line fishing has been eclipsed by a newly realised threat to seabirds from commercial fisheries – that of gillnets.
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Hotline for Turtle Doves
Posted: 18 May 2013A radical decline in the population of Turtle Dove breeding in Britain has led to the creation of a telephone hotline to help monitor their numbers.
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The last ibis in Syria
Posted: 17 May 2013A lesser-known victim of the current Syrian crisis is the Critically Endangered Northern Bald Ibis, which is down to its last known individual.
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Petrels shift diet due to commercial fishing
Posted: 16 May 2013The remains of the endangered Hawaiian Petrel have shown to researchers how drastically wild fish populations have changed over time.
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