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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...
‘A fifth of honey samples contain neonicotinoid residues’
“We don’t know what the risk of such long-term chronic exposure to neonicotinoids is over the course of an entire...
Calls for ‘urgent review’ of wild giraffe management
Lead author Zoe Muller warned that the continual loss of juveniles could lead to “an unrecoverable situation". Living alongside lions...