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Brown trout unlikely to survive in most rivers at height of summer by 2080, says Environment Agency

Preliminary research provides rare insight in to the reptile’s habits and movement across urban landscapes

The Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa was established 94 years ago to protect the last 11 elephants in the Eastern Cape region. Since then, the reserve has expanded to 155,000 hectares and today it’s home to lions, leopards, rhino, buffalo and more than 600 elephants. It also has…

Ecologists are calling on gardeners to help reduce the spread of Usutu virus

A PIONEERING rewilding site has seen its native woodlands almost double over the past 30 years – with new species of animals spotted in the area…

Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction erodes genetic diversity, because a species’ gene pool shrinks as the population declines. Losing genetic diversity limits the ability of…

Blood flow in the toes of wandering salamanders helps them to glide over the tops of redwood trees

Back in 2016, one of us (Silviu Petrovan) was asked to identify a live frog found in a shipment of roses in Sheffield, England. It certainly wasn’t any species found in Europe: Silviu thought he had been pranked.