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A nightingale from Norfolk sang in Guinea-Bissau
The 3,000-mile odyssey of the songbird's annual migration has been recorded for the first time, reports Michael McCarthy
Inside Nature
Whaling meeting delays decision on hunting by a year
Saturday, 26 June 2010
Native people of Greenland have won a long battle to extend their annual whale hunt to humpbacks, overriding objections from conservation-minded members of the International Whaling Commission.
World's biggest collection of berries and fruits faces axe
Saturday, 26 June 2010
The world's largest collection of fruits and berries may be bulldozed this year to make way for a Russian housing development, it emerged yesterday.
Right-wing Japanese protesters banned from film of dolphin cull
Saturday, 26 June 2010
A Japanese court has issued a rare ban against demonstrators who have hounded screenings of an Oscar-winning documentary exposing the country's infamous annual dolphin cull.
Purple herons breed in Kent
Saturday, 26 June 2010
A pair of purple herons has managed to breed successfully in Britain for the first time.
'Zero-grazing' set to bring US-style factory farming
Friday, 25 June 2010
Martin Hickman: Plans to rear thousands of pigs and cows in UK industrial units condemned by welfare charities
Victory for anti-whaling campaigners
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Michael McCarthy: Attempt to scrap the 24-year-old moratorium on commercial whaling collapses
Nations fail to reach whaling agreement
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Plan would have seen Iceland, Norway and Japan agree to curb the number of whales hunted.
Bees fitted with tiny ID tags for study
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Bees are being fitted with tiny radio ID tags to monitor their movements as part of research into whether pesticides could be giving the insects brain disorders, scientists said today.
The secret talks that threaten two decades of whale conservation
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
The future of the international whaling moratorium, one of the world's great conservation achievements, is being decided behind closed doors today and tomorrow, after whaling's governing body went into a secret session to discuss proposals that would end it.
Chimpanzees kill neighbours to seize territory and food
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Michael McCarthy: Study shows gangs of chimpanzees launching 'murderous sprees' to expand territory.
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