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Macaques living in Florida park ‘pose health threat’
Non-native rhesus macaques were first introduced to the park in the 1930s. Study shows primates are shedding herpes B Rhesus...
Environmentalists develop novel device to track harbour seals
The harbour seal population in Orkney has fallen by around 70 per cent in recent years. Device uses mobile network...
Swiss chefs ordered to stun lobsters before boiling
Many scientists and animal welfare organisations argue that the lobster’s nervous system is quite sophisticated. Government bans practice of boiling...
Concerns over plan for managing Welsh seas
The Welsh Marine Plan area covers around 32,000 km² of sea and 2,120 km of coastline. Charities worried plan might...
Government plans to eliminate plastic waste by 2042
Around 255,000 pieces of litter were removed from UK beaches as part of the Great British Beach Clean. Theresa May...
Green sea turtle population turning ’99 per cent female’
The study found 99 per cent of young green sea turtles hatching on warmer beaches are female. Climate change could...
Antiques Roadshow to review ivory policy
The UK is the world’s biggest exporter of ‘legal’ ivory. Programme comes under pressure from Born Free In view of...
Microbeads ban comes into force
Conservationists have welcomed the ban on microbeads, calling it ‘a new era in the fight for cleaner, healthier oceans’. Beads...
Small hive beetles – a modern threat to the UK honeybee
The small hive beetle recently re-entered the European Union causing significant economic damage to the once thriving honeybee. In this...
Coral bleaching events ‘now every six years’
The Great Barrier Reef has now bleached four times since 1998, including for the first time during back-to-back events in...