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Scientists discover orange toad species so tiny it can fit on pencil tip

Scientists call for immediate conservation efforts to protect endangered species

The Independent UK

Cruise-ship stowaway owls set for US return after living it up at Spanish resort

Burrowing owls, who boarded cruise ship in Miami, to be returned to US next month after long spell in quarantine

The Guardian - US

Hightailing along city streets and raiding ponds: otters’ revival in Britain

Still rare only 20 years ago, the charismatic animals are in almost every UK river and a conservation success story

The Guardian - UK

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Stress from rapidly warming climate is visible in polar bears’ DNA, study shows

Study is the first to find a statistically significant link between rising temperatures and altered DNA activity in a wild mammal

The Independent UK

Changes to polar bear DNA could help them adapt to global heating, study finds

Scientists say bears in southern Greenland differ genetically to those in the north, suggesting they could adjust

The Guardian - UK

Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds

Northern resident killer whales appear to use dolphins as ‘scouts’, in a surprising cooperative hunting strategy

The Guardian - UK

Killer whales seen hunting with dolphins and sharing spoils for first time

Orcas may be tracking salmon using dolphin echolocation and sharing prey in return

The Independent UK

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Snakes, spiders and rare birds seized by Border Force in month-long operation

Wildlife smuggling is serious organised crime that ‘fuels corruption and drives species to extinction’, Home Office says

The Guardian - UK

NSW koala numbers higher than previously thought, but new data may not show true picture

Updated estimate reflects more accurate technology and extensive survey work, rather than a true increase in the koala population

The Guardian - AU

Country diary: A lifelong love affair with a handsome duck

Tyrella Beach, County Down: Common scoters are tricky to spot from the shore, but I feel lucky to be seeing them at all

The Guardian - UK

Sea urchin species on brink of extinction after marine pandemic

Ecologically important Diadema africanum almost eliminated by unknown disease in Canary Islands

The Guardian - UK

Habitat loss drives France's biodiversity collapse, but recovery still possible

France’s wildlife is in crisis, but the few species that receive real protection show that long-term, well-funded action can reverse the trend, says the World Wildlife Fund France's annual biodiversity report. The challenge is not a lack of solutions, but a lack of commitment.

Radio France Internationale

'Claim back our waterways': calls for crocodile culls

Claims of an "infestation" of crocodiles is prompting calls for a cull as part of a management plan of the apex predators and to protect regional communities.

AAP

Heatwave, disease 'catastrophic' combo for hardy corals

A sturdy type of coral that usually withstands bleaching has been hit hard by a combination of heat stress and a disease rarely seen in the Great Barrier Reef.

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The Guardian - UK

Humans rank above meerkats but below beavers in monogamy league table

Human beings in 7th place out of 35 species on monogamy scale, according to a study by Cambridge University

The Guardian - UK

Iain Douglas-Hamilton obituary

Conservationist who devoted his life to the study and preservation of the African elephant

The Independent UK

Modern humans unfairly blamed for extinction of Indonesia’s ‘hobbits’, scientists say

Previous research linked disappearance of small-brained species to arrival of homo sapiens

Evening Standard

Laid in Dagenham: Family of white storks to set up home in east London for first time in 600 years

Beavers will also be reintroduced at Eastbrookend Country Park in Dagenham after funding from Sadiq Khan

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White storks to make historic return to London in 2026

Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort

The Guardian - UK

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk in 500 years

Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Lapwings are birds of my childhood – finally they have returned

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: I have memories of seeing them at night, on our pyjama-clad safaris round the farm, but they haven’t been here for a decade

The Guardian - AU

How many spiders and pseudoscorpions does it take to make one of the world’s greatest taxonomists?

Former Perth curator Mark Harvey is one of the few people on Earth to have described 1,000 new species, many of them arachnids. Colleagues say his legacy is ‘unquantifiable’

The Guardian - UK

Streets named after birds in Britain on rise as species’ populations plummet

RSPB says growing trend for honouring species that are in decline is not matched by action on conservation

Tom’s Guide

Can you take down your hummingbird feeder in winter? An expert says it depends on where your live

Don’t make this fatal mistake: Hummingbirds still need feeding in winter, but it depends on where you live

The Independent UK

More than 60,000 penguins starve to death near Africa after fall in sardine numbers

African penguins need sardines to fatten up before a three-week moulting period on land

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