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Should we bring back the dodo? De-extinction is a feel-good story, but these high-tech replacements aren’t really ‘resurrecting’ species

It’s no secret that human activities have put many of this planet’s inhabitants in danger. Extinctions are happening at a dramatically faster rate than they have over the past tens of millions of years. An estimated quarter of all species on Earth are at risk of being lost, many within…

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Wolf restoration in Colorado shows how humans are rethinking their relationships with wild animals

From sports to pop culture, there are few themes more appealing than a good comeback. They happen in nature, too. Even with the Earth losing species at a historic rate, some animals have defied the trend toward extinction and started refilling their old ecological niches.

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OPINION - Sunak basks in glory, but is still in the business of extinction prevention

If not quite the hand of history, Rishi Sunak surely felt the poke of posterity as he unveiled the “Windsor framework” on Brexit and Northern Ireland yesterday.

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Threatened species recover in fenced safe havens. But their safety is only temporary

If you want to see some of Australia’s most charismatic threatened mammals such as bilbies, boodies and stick-nest rats, chances are you’ll have to go to a zoo – or a safe haven.

The Conversation

What Denmark's dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives -- and how we can help them

The European hedgehog is in decline all over Europe. In Britain, the species is already deemed vulnerable to extinction having seen its population fall by at least 46% in the past 13 years to an estimated 500,000 animals.

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Hundreds of Washington state plants, animals at risk of extinction

Over a third of species and ecosystems in the United States are at risk of disappearing, including hundreds of plants and animals in Washington.

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'Selling endangered seahorses for use in medicine may save them from extinction'

Nada Farhoud examines an unusual and counterintuitive way to help preserve endangered seahorse populations which will be explored in a new documentary on Netflix

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Australia’s red goshawk is disappearing. How can we save our rarest bird of prey from extinction?

Australia’s red goshawk once ruled the skies. But now this almighty raptor, affectionately known as The Red, has become our nation’s rarest bird of prey.

The Conversation

Ecosystem collapse ‘inevitable’ unless wildlife losses reversed

Scientists studying the Permian-Triassic mass extinction find ecosystems can suddenly tip over

The Guardian - UK

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

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.

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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

Evening Standard

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

Bristol Post

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"

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The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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 Conversation

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.

WEKU

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.

Belfast Live

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

Los Angeles Times

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

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