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By Community Correspondent Drivers on Essex Regiment Way had an unexpected encounter last week — not with criminals, but with a family of swans on the loose. Officers were called to the scene near Chelmsford following reports of two adult swans and their four young goslings wandering dangerously close to the
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By Animals Correspondent An Endangered red panda cub born at Bristol Zoo Project is preparing to venture out of its nest box for the first time, as keepers reveal it’s a girl! The female was born at the zoo on June 26, to first time parents Neora and Laya.
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By Charities Correspondent The world’s largest rodents were among the animals getting their vital statistics recorded at London Zoo this week at the conservation Zoo’s Annual Weigh In. Gizmo and Kiwi, a pair of capybaras joined the Humboldt penguins, giant Galapagos tortoises, the ring-tail lemur troop, giant katydids,
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By Animals Correspondent Known for her non-stop chatter and energy, Big Cat keeper Emily De Pasquale Wood faced her biggest challenge yet…being silent for an entire day. Emily, who works on the Carnivore section at Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm, a Zoo and conservation charity in North Somerset, completed
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By Animals Correspondent A donkey named Darby, who spent several months at The Donkey Sanctuary’s dedicated donkey hospital following complications with a routine dental extraction, is now back to full health and among his companions on his sanctuary farm in Devon. In December last year, Equine Dental Technician Kelsey
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By Animals Correspondent In a heartwarming twist on post-Brexit headlines, two miniature pig farms—one nestled in the rolling hills of Buckinghamshire, the other amid the wildflower-strewn fields of the west of Ireland—have trotted across international red tape to birth a groundbreaking partnership with tiny trotters and a big
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By Community Correspondent Following an overwhelmingly pawsitive response to its one-month trial, The Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare North Somerset, is thrilled to announce that dogs are now officially and permanently welcome on site. Since opening its doors to our four-legged friends in early June, The Grand Pier has seen an
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By Animals Correspondent Shaldon Wildlife Trust is thrilled to announce the arrival of two Goodman’s mouse lemurs, Microcebus lehilahytsara, from Zoo Zurich, marking the first time this rare and elusive species has ever been housed in a UK zoo. The two individuals – a male and a female – arrived safely
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By Animals Correspondent The Montagu’s Harrier is Britain’s rarest breeding bird species and hasn’t successfully nested in the UK since 2019. After a high of nine successful nests in 2011, its population has sadly dwindled – with it being officially placed on the Red List in 2021. But
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By Jill Dando News A penguin rehabilitation project in Brazil is tracking penguins’ journeys home with the help of an Aberystwyth University academic. Each year from May onwards, penguins swim from Patagonia in southern Argentina to the south coast of Brazil seeking food and warmer waters. Some of the animals
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By Jill Dando News It took eight zookeepers, six vets, five vet nurses, four farriers, and two veterinary anaesthesiologists, to perform a life-changing veterinary procedure on Bashu, a 4.8 metre (16 feet) tall, reticulated giraffe at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire. The iconic animal, patriarch of the conservation zoo’s
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By Jill Dando News The Donkey Sanctuary is shining a light on the plastics crisis facing Ethiopia’s working donkeys - an issue the international animal welfare charity hopes to address with the first study of its kind in its partnership with Addis Ababa university. The harmful ingestion of plastics
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By Jill Dando News Last week Noah's Ark Zoo Farm celebrated a very special milestone ... Janu the African elephant turned 20 years old! Born in July 2005 at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent, Janu later moved to Port Lympne before joining Noah's Ark in 2014.
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By Jill Dando News Weston‑super‑Mare, Somerset, was a scene of swirling red and black yesterday as thousands of ladybirds descended on the town’s beaches, gardens, and promenades. The unseasonal swarm surprised locals and sparked a flurry of curiosity. “I was trying to hang out the washing,” said
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By Jill Dando News Aberdeen is celebrating a conservation success as red squirrels make a strong comeback, with sightings across the city increasing — and grey squirrel numbers plummeting. Only one grey squirrel has been caught in Aberdeen during the first half of 2025, a dramatic drop from six in 2024.
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By Jill Dando News Heal Somerset is thrilled to announce a landmark moment in its rewilding journey: the first confirmed sighting of a baby beaver born onsite. The appearance of the baby beaver — known as a kit — was captured on trail camera footage earlier this week and marks the first