WE’VE LOST 44 MILLION BIRDS SINCE 1966. By Chantal Cooke. Since 1966, we’ve lost breeding birds from our countryside at an average rate of a nesting pair every minute. These shocking statistics are contained in the State of the UK’s Birds 2012 report published in November 2012, charting the ups and downs of our bird …
Tag Archive: wildlife
Oct 12
EXTINCT AUROCHS RETURNING
EXTINCT AUROCHS ABOUT TO RETURN TO THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL EUROPE. By SONA MEIKLE. For hundreds of thousands of years the Aurochs was a part of European nature. Since the death of the last aurochs in 1627 in the Jaktorow game preserve in Poland, it seemed that Europe had lost this key species forever. But …
Jul 23
SAVING WILDLIFE FROM THE PET TRADE
SAVING WILDLIFE FROM THE PET TRADE. By ELAINE TOLAND. It is not difficult to understand the fascination that many, if not most, people have for wildlife. Exotic, meaning non-native, animals can be especially intriguing to some because of the very fact that they are not commonplace on our ‘home turf’. An arguably similar fascination for …

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