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Four species, 160 days, 50,000 images: meet the photographer dedicated to showing the lovable side of flying foxes

Doug Gimesy’s extreme close-ups of ‘sky puppies’ are designed to trigger an emotional response that endears people to the ‘wrongly vilified’ mammals

The Guardian - AU · Dec 26, 2025

OPINION - Sadiq Khan: I want to rewild London. First storks, then beavers (yes, really)

White storks are coming back to London for the first time in 600 years

Evening Standard · Dec 26, 2025

Dodo’s closest living relative spotted in remote South Pacific rainforest

Manumea’s first sighting since 2013 raises hope critically endangered species can be saved from extinction

The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2025

Pink platypus spotted in Gippsland far from a monochrome monotreme

Biologist says specimen filmed by a Victorian fisher is ‘unusual’, but not a rare albino as some had wondered

The Guardian - AU · Dec 22, 2025

Conservation groups buy more than 3,000 acres on Texas coast for whooping crane habitat

Once on the brink of extinction, the birds have expanded beyond the protected lands set aside for them in the 1970s.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 22, 2025

2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coast

Milder weather led to a bloom in the invertebrates off the coast of Cornwall and south Devon, wildlife charity says

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2025

Do prawns feel pain? Why scientists are urging a rethink of Australia’s favoured festive food

Studies show crustaceans can learn, remember, solve problems and form relationships

The Guardian - AU · Dec 21, 2025

The plants that thrive in salt: could halophytes help save coastal farming?

As rising seas salinise the soils of the Venice lagoon, scientists and chefs are turning to long-forgotten wild herbs

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025

Snails on a plane: Australia flies rescue mission to Norfolk Island for a tiny, critically endangered species

The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail is officially extinct, but researchers have ‘high hopes’ that translocation will allow the population to thrive

The Guardian - AU · Dec 20, 2025

US fisherman may have broken world records with 10.25-pound catch

A Northern California fisherman landed the canary rockfish off the coast of Albion, north of San Francisco

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2025