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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
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By Animals Correspondent Woburn Safari Park is celebrating the birth of a female Eastern Mountain Bongo calf — the first of her kind born at the park in more than a decade. The arrival marks a significant step forward for one of the world’s most endangered large mammals. With fewer
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By Animals Correspondent After decades of declines, one of the UK’s smallest and most threatened seabirds, the Little Tern, has continued to show signs of recovery after a successful 2025 breeding season at colonies across England. Little Terns, which weigh less than a tennis ball and migrate thousands of
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By Animals Correspondent Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in North Somerset has unveiled its biggest and most colourful pumpkin harvest to date – celebrated with a record-breaking jumbo elephant mosaic made from an astonishing 11,000 home grown pumpkins and gourds. The annual pumpkin harvest is a tradition born six years
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By Conservation Correspondent A groundbreaking project has seen 20 giant “oyster reef cubes” deployed off the North East coast of England to help restore the near-extinct European native oyster to UK waters. In a UK-first, marine conservationists from ZSL and Groundwork North East and Cumbria placed the textured, concrete-like blocks
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By Conservation Correspondent Coffee farming could be a solution to decades of conflict between farmers and elephants in Thailand, as the roll-out of an innovative new project yields promising results. Global conservation charity ZSL, working with Thai NGO Eco-exist Society has been working with local communities in the Kanchanaburi province
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By Animals Correspondent SILVERBACK gorilla Kiburi, the 21-year-old patriarch of London Zoo’s western lowland gorilla troop, was given an initial clean bill of health this week – following a mighty trip to the vets for a full health check. The 177kg primate had been under observation after contending with recurrent
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By Animals Correspondent Woburn Safari Park is inviting animal lovers to help name four otter pups, born this summer to proud parents Beatrix and Kovu! These Asian short-clawed otters, are the smallest of all otter species, and are native to wetlands across Asia, including Vietnam. Sadly, they’re listed as
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By Animals Correspondent For the first time in almost ten years, a Chilean flamingo chick has hatched at Edinburgh Zoo. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) says the chick hatched on 4 September 2025, marking a major milestone in the zoo’s breeding programme. To maximise the chance of
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By Animals Correspondent A licence for the historic official reintroduction of beavers to Glen Affric, following months of unexpected delay by Scottish government agency NatureScot, has been granted. Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) and Trees for Life have been working in partnership on the proposal since 2022, which will now
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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 Two Asian elephants have travelled across the country, in a move to boost the conservation breeding programme for the endangered species. The big move, which took months of planning and involved keepers, vets, two lorries, a crane able to carry 100 tons, and a team of animal
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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