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By Conservation Correspondent The UK’s tallest bird, the crane, is making a remarkable comeback after a record-breaking breeding season in 2025, offering renewed optimism for wildlife recovery. New surveys show that 87 breeding pairs successfully raised 37 chicks last year—the highest figures recorded in the UK. This brings
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By Animals Correspondent Twelve tiny hooves met grass for the first time this week, as spring sunshine and warmer weather meant Whipsnade Zoo’s three-month-old southern white rhino calf and two four-month-old reticulated giraffe calves could explore their grassy paddocks at the UK’s largest zoo. Born on 31st December
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By Animals Correspondent This Easter, there’s a brand-new reason to head to Woburn Safari Park – and they’re small, fluffy, and already stealing hearts. Two tiny Asian short-clawed otter pups, born on 28th January 2026, have made their debut at Otter Falls, and they’re already causing a splash
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By Conservation Correspondent Set within beautiful local woodland, African Forest offers the chance to experience endangered animals in expansive, natural habitats while learning how we can protect them in the wild. For the first time, visitors will be able to see western lowland gorillas living under a tree canopy. By
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By Animals Correspondent The fluffy foursome were spotted basking in the first of the spring rays, having awoken after three months of deep slumber. Footage captured by zookeepers this week shows the bears taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of a new year at a leisurely pace. Whipsnade Zoo’
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By Conservation Correspondent It’s been a record-breaking season at Orford Ness in Suffolk, where National Trust rangers are celebrating the birth of 430 grey seal pups — an astonishing 88% increase on last year’s total. Matt Wilson, Countryside Manager for the National Trust’s Suffolk and Essex Coast portfolio,
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By Conservation Correspondent Beavers are set to return to more rivers in South West England after Natural England approved two new licensed release projects, marking a major step forward for nature recovery. The decision follows the first licensed release of wild Eurasian beavers in Dorset last year, after a landmark
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By Animals Correspondent The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is celebrating a monumental arrival: a female Asian elephant calf, born early Feb. 2, the first at the zoo in nearly 25 years. The newborn arrived at 1:15 a.m. to 12-year-old mother Nhi Linh and 44-year-old father Spike, following a
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By Rural Affairs Correspondent The National Trust has secured land surrounding the iconic Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, following a hugely successful public fundraising appeal backed by Sir Stephen Fry. Launched in early December, the appeal aimed to raise £330,000 to help buy and care for 138 hectares (340
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By Conservation Correspondent Geoscientists from the University of Leicester are part of an international team that has discovered and sampled ancient freshwater trapped beneath the ocean floor, possibly for thousands of years. For the first time, scientists have directly studied a large freshwater system sealed below the seabed. The discovery
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By Conservation Correspondent Scotland has become the first nation in the UK to legally require swift nesting bricks in new buildings, following the passage of the Natural Environment Bill in the Scottish Parliament. Wildlife charities have hailed the move as a landmark moment for nature recovery, with RSPB Scotland calling
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By Animals Correspondent Humboldt penguins, Asiatic lions, corals, Seychelles millipedes and capybaras were some of the 8,000 animals being counted this week as part of London Zoo’s 2026 Annual Stocktake, kicking off ZSL’s 200-year anniversary. Zookeepers recorded 75 Humboldt penguins including the 16 chicks hatched in 2025.
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By Evie P, Liv M and Juno S, Good News Room at Clevedon School We love turtles, and this year we are championing them because plastic pollution along our beaches can seriously harm turtles and their habitats. The life of a turtle begins when a mother turtle lays her eggs,
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By Conservation Correspondent The range of red squirrels in the Scottish Highlands has increased by more than 25% after a 10-year reintroduction project by rewilding charity Trees for Life. Surveys show over a dozen new populations are now thriving and breeding successfully, with many spreading and linking up. Trees for
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By Animals Correspondent The humid climate of Asia and Africa is being recreated in a new habitat at Bristol Zoo Project. The Tropical House features 14 new reptile, mammal, insect and bird species, many of which are listed as threatened on the IUCN red list of species, living together in
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By Conservation Correspondent More than 7,000 Extinct in the Wild and Critically Endangered Partula snails have been released across four islands in French Polynesia—the largest reintroduction of the rare species to date. The conservation team used a tiny white UV-reflective mark on each shell to help track the