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OPINION - London must face the extinction crisis on our streets

GK Chesterton once wrote a story about a man who broke into his own house like a burglar in order to recover a sense of its exotic desirability — the residence in question was somewhere like Tooting. Sir David Attenborough pulls off the same trick in his latest series, Wild…

Evening Standard

Orange-bellied parrot shows there's more to saving endangered species than captive breeding

Captive breeding of threatened species for release into the wild is an important conservation tool. But where threats to wild populations remain unresolved, this tool may not guarantee population recovery in the long term.

The Conversation

Extinction Rebellion set up 'crime scene' next to section of River Taff where sewage is dumped

The event was part of a week of UK action called Dirty Water, highlighting sewage and waste dumped in rivers and waterways

Wales Online

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Fireproof Australia activist reflects on his crime

Alan Glover - actor, comedian, volunteer firefighter and activist - was unhappy with his sentencing outcome at the Downing Centre court in Sydney on Tuesday. Glover was given an 18-month good behaviour bond and he has to pay a $3000 fine for blocking a bridge or tunnel. He says he…

Newcastle Herald

Destruction of endangered native wildflowers sparks fears of extinction on Melbourne's doorstep amid population boom

A field of endangered native wildflowers is damaged after a truck drives through a protected field in Melbourne's outer west, sparking fears of extinction as the city's sprawling population growth threatens grassland ecosystems.

ABC News

Lenovo Teams Up with Aston Martin for New ThinkStations: Up to 120 Cores, 4 Graphics Cards

Lenovo has introduced its all-new ThinkStation machines designed for performance-hungry professionals. The new ThinkStation P-series lineup consists of four machines based on up to two Intel Sapphire Rapids processors and up to four Nvidia RTX-series professional graphics cards. One of the interesting wrinkles in Lenovo's announcement is that the chassis…

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OPINION - Save the harebell! It’s not just climate that’s in crisis

WHEN’S the last time you saw an eco-activist throw tomato soup at a painting in the Tate Gallery to make a point about meadowsweet? Or lie down in front of traffic to draw public attention to the plight of the harebell?

Evening Standard

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Preserving wildlife and a way of life

Through an intersection of bipartisan interest and once-in-a-generation federal funding, we may finally have a chance to end the spiral toward extinction of salmon, orcas that feed on salmon and the cultures of tribal nations who consider the salmon their first food.

Chicago Sun-Times

When is a nature reserve not a nature reserve? When it's already been burned and logged

Australia has the world’s worst mammal extinction record, with nearly 40 native mammal species lost since European colonisation. By contrast, the United States has lost three.

The Conversation

The man who keep getting arrested at Extinction Rebellion protests in Wales

"I have been arrested eight or nine times"

Wales Online

Activists who targeted S*n printing facility thank people of Liverpool

The group stopped thousands of The S*n newspapers being delivered

Liverpool Echo

Glen Affric set to host beavers for first time in 400 years

Beavers are set to be reintroduced to Glen Affric, 400 years after being driven to extinction.

The National (Scotland)

World Wildlife Day: UN celebration of animals and plants on 50th anniversary of CITES

The UN and CITES recently pledged to reduce the extinction rate tenfold.

Evening Standard

Florence and her cubs give hope that west African lion can come roaring back

National park in Senegal shows off three surprise new recruits in fight to save critically endangered species from extinction

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The Conversation

Should we bring back the dodo? De-extinction is a feel-good story, but these high-tech replacements aren’t really ‘resurrecting’ species

It’s no secret that human activities have put many of this planet’s inhabitants in danger. Extinctions are happening at a dramatically faster rate than they have over the past tens of millions of years. An estimated quarter of all species on Earth are at risk of being lost, many within…

The Conversation

Wolf restoration in Colorado shows how humans are rethinking their relationships with wild animals

From sports to pop culture, there are few themes more appealing than a good comeback. They happen in nature, too. Even with the Earth losing species at a historic rate, some animals have defied the trend toward extinction and started refilling their old ecological niches.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Sunak basks in glory, but is still in the business of extinction prevention

If not quite the hand of history, Rishi Sunak surely felt the poke of posterity as he unveiled the “Windsor framework” on Brexit and Northern Ireland yesterday.

The Conversation

Threatened species recover in fenced safe havens. But their safety is only temporary

If you want to see some of Australia’s most charismatic threatened mammals such as bilbies, boodies and stick-nest rats, chances are you’ll have to go to a zoo – or a safe haven.

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What Denmark's dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives -- and how we can help them

The European hedgehog is in decline all over Europe. In Britain, the species is already deemed vulnerable to extinction having seen its population fall by at least 46% in the past 13 years to an estimated 500,000 animals.

Tribune News Service

Hundreds of Washington state plants, animals at risk of extinction

Over a third of species and ecosystems in the United States are at risk of disappearing, including hundreds of plants and animals in Washington.

Daily Mirror

'Selling endangered seahorses for use in medicine may save them from extinction'

Nada Farhoud examines an unusual and counterintuitive way to help preserve endangered seahorse populations which will be explored in a new documentary on Netflix

The Conversation

Australia’s red goshawk is disappearing. How can we save our rarest bird of prey from extinction?

Australia’s red goshawk once ruled the skies. But now this almighty raptor, affectionately known as The Red, has become our nation’s rarest bird of prey.

The Guardian - UK

Ecosystem collapse ‘inevitable’ unless wildlife losses reversed

Scientists studying the Permian-Triassic mass extinction find ecosystems can suddenly tip over

The Conversation

The animals and plants that only exist in captivity – and why time is running out to restore them to the wild

It was April in 1981 when a party of four camped for two days and nights on the forested slopes of Mount Evermann, the central peak of Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific some 400 kilometres southwest of Baja California, Mexico. Their fruitless search confirmed their suspicions: the Socorro…

ABC News

Extinction Rebellion activists appear in court over Tour Down Under protest

Three Extinction Rebellion activists who allegedly exposed themselves during a protest of energy giant Santos's sponsorship of the Tour Down Under appear in an Adelaide court.

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