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The animals and plants that only exist in captivity – and why time is running out to restore them to the wild

It was April in 1981 when a party of four camped for two days and nights on the forested slopes of Mount Evermann, the central peak of Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific some 400 kilometres southwest of Baja California, Mexico. Their fruitless search confirmed their suspicions: the Socorro…

The Conversation

Extinction Rebellion activists appear in court over Tour Down Under protest

Three Extinction Rebellion activists who allegedly exposed themselves during a protest of energy giant Santos's sponsorship of the Tour Down Under appear in an Adelaide court.

ABC News

Today’s climate activist ‘criminals’ are tomorrow’s heroes: silencing them in court is immoral

It’s not ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ if campaigners cannot explain their motivations to a jury, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

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Extinction Rebellion target London Fashion Week with oil stunt and ‘die in’

The activist group were aiming to highlight Coca-Cola’s impact on the environment

Evening Standard

Extinction Rebellion co-founder cleared of further charge in paint-throwing case

Roger Hallam and four other protesters have been cleared of a criminal damage charge in an ongoing trial at Wood Green Crown Court.

The Independent UK

Boldly not going: zero-travel ‘touring’ play paves the way for eco theatre

Using local creatives and actors, director Katie Mitchell’s A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is a narrative response to the climate crisis and an experiment in sustainability

The Guardian - UK

‘The holy grail of mammals’: one man’s mission to learn the secrets of the giant armadillo

A life-changing encounter with the secretive creature led Arnaud Desbiez to dedicate his work to saving it from extinction

The Guardian - UK

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Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons at the Hayward Gallery review, one of the best surveys I’ve seen

This sounded like an impossible exhibition, but the gallery has pulled it off with aplomb

Evening Standard

Extinction Rebellion activists surround Bristol Airport bus in transport protest

"We need to revolutionise our public transport, including vastly improving the state of the West of England's frankly awful bus network"

Bristol Post

Extinction Rebellion co-founder cleared of one charge over paint-throwing stunt

Several activists were acquitted of charges in relation to throwing paint over charity buildings in 2020, but the jury is still out on other counts.

The Independent UK

Hockney’s secrets, a Mike Nelson thriller, and graffiti gets a retrospective – the week in art

The great English artist’s immersive spectacular, Extinction Beckons on London’s Southbank and a sweeping street-art show at Saatchi Gallery – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

We found 29 threatened species are back from the brink in Australia. Here's how

Australia’s natural world is in deep trouble. Many of our species are getting rarer. Some are now perilously close to extinction, while entire ecosystems face collapse.

The Conversation

After a big recovery, the wood stork may soon fly off the endangered species list

The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction in 1984, has rebounded dramatically in Florida and other Southern states, officials say.

WEKU

Hope for threatened curlew as 80 fledging chicks recorded in NI

The groundnesting bird is at risk of extinction within 10 years if numbers don't improve say RSPB NI

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Barney, the big purple dinosaur, is back

Barney, the “dinosaur from our imagination,” is bouncing back from extinction.

Bristol Post

Bristol scientist in Extinction Rebellion cleared of causing criminal damage

Professor Colin Davis has been cleared

ABC News

Should the Tassie tiger be brought back to life? Have your say

We want to hear from you — should the Tasmanian tiger be brought back to life? And what will that mean for First Nations people, the environment, and the ecosystem?

The Conversation

Bahamas songbird is under threat of extinction -- but preserving old pine forests will help save it

The Bahama warbler, a small songbird found exclusively on Grand Bahama and Abaco, two islands in the north-east Bahama archipelago only “became” a species in 2010. But due to its limited range and increasingly fragmented habitat, the warbler was immediately treated as a species of conservation concern.

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Daily Mirror

Best countries to survive nuclear apocalypse revealed as Australia tops list

Ever wondered who may need to repopulate the earth in the event of mass extinction? Researchers say Australia and New Zealand have the best fighting chance

The Conversation

As we fight to protect species on the brink of extinction, let's not forget the familiar ones

Nothing commands attention like rarity. In the natural world, rarity is most starkly represented by the last members of a declining species. These scarce plants and animals are infinitively valuable; they represent the final hope for averting extinction.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: earthquake casualties could exceed 20,000; BLM protest charges dropped; and a quoll faces extinction

Anthony Albanese has pledged an initial $10m in humanitarian assistance after the earthquakes

Salon

Doomsday Clock: The danger is real

Critics call the clock a scare-mongering device — but the problem is, we have good reasons to fear extinction

Belfast Live

Butterfly species facing extinction in Northern Ireland

Butterfly Conservation revealed its plight in the State of the UK's Butterflies 2022 report

The Guardian - UK

‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protesters

Dozens of people have been imprisoned, as changes in the law are used to curb protest. Is it part of a turn towards a more authoritarian state?

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t tell us the bad news all at once’: how to talk to kids about grown-up things

Abortion, toxic masculinity, human extinction ... What’s the best way to talk to children about the big issues of the day? We ask the experts

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