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Zoo's entire population of capybaras mysteriously dies leaving visitors devastated

Guests at Chessington World of Adventures were distraught when they discovered the zoo's population of popular capybaras had died last month, prompting a probe by the theme park

Daily Mirror · Oct 17, 2022

UK twitchers flock to tiny island for extremely rare glimpse of lost American bird

It is only the fourth known sighting of a Blackburnian warbler in the UK

Wales Online · Oct 17, 2022

‘Badasses of the mountains’: goats clash with sheep as key US glaciers melt

Climate crisis may explain fights as disappearing ice fuels interspecies competition – with goats nearly always winning

The Guardian - US · Oct 17, 2022

Despair on the dead Myall: 'Never seen the estuary so ill'

First the mangroves around Swan Bay started dying off, then the fish began to disappear.

Newcastle Herald · Oct 16, 2022

The Nottinghamshire community who love hedgehogs

The street has been crowned ‘Britain’s Biggest Hedgehog Street’

Nottingham Post · Oct 16, 2022

£2.9m package to counter 'Tory attacks on nature' revealed by Scottish Greens

EFFORTS to counter “Tory attacks on nature” are to receive a new £2.9m package of funding measures, Scottish Green​ co-leader Lorna Slater…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 16, 2022

‘A tragedy for trees’: ash dieback ravages UK’s fragile woodlands

Only 5% of species now expected to survive as disease hits harder than first thought and prevention costs mount

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2022

Elephant conservation may be undermined by Twitter users who overlook main threats

The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) are all highly threatened species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has identified poaching, habitat loss, and human-elephant conflict as threats common to the species.

The Conversation · Oct 16, 2022

Alaska cancels snow crab season over population decline

Causes being researched but likely included increased predation and stresses from warmer water

The Guardian - US · Oct 16, 2022

New study reveals ‘staggering’ scale of lost fishing gear drifting in Earth’s oceans

Lost nets, lines and hooks trap wildlife for years as they float in the ocean, sink to the bottom or are washed ashore

The Guardian - AU · Oct 15, 2022