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By Jill Dando News Bees are crucial to our environment, playing a vital role in pollination, which helps produce one in every three bites of food we eat. They pollinate many of the fruits, vegetables, and flowers that are essential to our ecosystems and food supply. Unfortunately, bee populations have
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By Jill Dando News April 1st marked the 10th Anniversary of Cakes for Apes. The month-long ‘bake-off’ encourages people to bake cakes to fundraise and support orangutan conservation efforts. On Saturday, TV Bake Off contestant Henry Bird joined Cake for Apes to host an afternoon tea at Brighton’s Hotel
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By Jill Dando News The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) were delighted to announce that they scooped one of the top accolades at the Smiley Charity Film Awards! Their animation The Littlest Hoglet held off fierce competition to win the overall Grand Prix People’s Choice Award at the awards
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By Jill Dando News Inner Farne, one of the Farne Islands cared for by the National Trust, has re-opened for visitors to enjoy the annual spectacle of seabirds returning to breed, with the first puffins spotted back on the islands. 2025 marks 100 years of the 28-island archipelago being in
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By Jill Dando News With nesting season underway, we look at how to help birds nest and raise their chicks successfully. Come March something very special is happening in our hedgerows. In parks and gardens across the UK, birds are preparing to welcome in the next generation by building nests.
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By Jill Dando News How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean’s top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some surprisingly long-distance dives. Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT) oceanographers have found that big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of
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By Jill Dando News National Geographic Explorer Diego Pol and a team of researchers and paleontologists from Argentina and Uruguay working in the Anacleto Formation near northern Patagonia, have identified a new long-necked dinosaur species, Chadititan calvoi, described in Revista del Museo Argentino Ciencias Naturales. The new species, whose name
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By Jill Dando News Scientists have revealed for the first time that some fish sneak up on their prey by hiding behind sharks. The previously unknown behaviour was discovered by a team of researchers, including scientists from the University of Edinburgh, studying sandbar sharks in the Mediterranean Sea. Underwater video
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By Jill Dando News A rare species of Polynesian tree snail once declared Extinct in the Wild has officially been downlisted, thanks to a decades-long conservation programme led by ZSL — the charity behind London Zoo — and its global conservation partners. The Partula tohiveana snail — wiped out in the wild due
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By Jill Dando News Whipsnade Zoo’s quartet of rare northern African lion cubs were pictured taking their first exploratory steps outside today, under the watchful eye of mother Waka. The eight-week-old cubs, who are yet to be sexed, were spotted running, climbing, and playfighting in their paddock. They are
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By Jill Dando News Bristol Zoo Project is partnering with tourist attractions from across the South West and Wales to stage one of the biggest Easter egg hunts of the year. Seven prize-winning golden eggs are to be hidden at mystery locations later this month for the zoo’s week-long
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By Jill Dando News WORLD RECORDS (GWR), celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2025, is pleased to announce that Mr. Pugsley Addams, a silver Maine Coon from Minnesota, USA has a tail measuring 18.5 in (46.99 cm), making it the longest tail on a domestic cat living! Two-year-old Pugsley,
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By Jill Dando News Children being supported by Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity (ECHC) have painted special pebbles to celebrate the beginning of penguin breeding season at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo. Discovery and community officers from the wildlife conservation charity delivered the pebbles as
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By Jill Dando News Margaret, the chairwoman of the Naserian Women’s Donkey Welfare Group from Maasai Mara, is promoting the wellbeing of donkeys, who are vital to the local economy. In a region where women often bear the burden of gathering water, firewood and taking food to market, donkeys
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By Jill Dando News Whipsnade Zoo has welcomed a second litter of rare northern African lion cubs, bringing the total number of cubs at the conservation zoo to seven. The four cubs, born as part of the conservation breeding programme for their threatened sub-species, were born to mum Waka and
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By Jill Dando News Wiltshire Police adopted three-year-old English Springer Spaniel Reggie in February 2024 from our Evesham centre. A former rescue dog adopted from Dogs Trust by Wiltshire Police has celebrated his first year of service as a police dog. Reggie excelled during training due to his enthusiastic nature