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Love rats: Canadians get chance to feed rodents named after old flames to owls

Australian climate and environment in focus
‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI

‘Dark day for parks’: Plans to build Spurs academy on London green space approved

England’s wildlife watchdog failing to protect crucial sites, say campaigners

Birdwatch
Birdwatch: a nostalgic sighting of a roadrunner in Nevada

Country diary
Country diary: A performance by a heron that’s worthy of applause

Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds

Researchers found that most birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent – meaning they absorb light through their bodies

Eager beavers: rodents engineer Czech wetland project after years of human delay

Beavers accomplish long-stalled conservation plan on former army site, sparing crayfish and taxpayers alike

• • Rangers corral feral pigs thought to have been released in Cairngorms

  The age of extinction
  Shot, poisoned and beaten to death: why leopard killings are soaring in Pakistan

  Country diary
  Country diary: In our nature-poor country, road verges are reservoirs for recovery

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Trump signs order to bring back plastic straws, claiming paper ones ‘explode’

Order rolls back Biden policy to phase out federal purchases of single-use plastic as Trump calls it a ‘ridiculous situation’

Cockatoos show appetite for dips when eating bland food, find scientists

Birds observed going to lengths to flavour food, with particular penchant for blueberry-flavoured soy yoghurt dip

• • K’gari at risk of being ‘destroyed’ by overtourism, world heritage advisory committee warns

  • ‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka

  The age of extinction
  More than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India’s coastline

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Black summer revisited
Charlotte O’Dwyer became the face of black summer’s terrible toll. Five years after the fires her family looks back

‘It’s about escaping from yourself’: wildlife presenter Gordon Buchanan

UK conservation goals insufficient to save ants and bees, says expert

Science committee chair calls for monitored species to include groups such as moths, lice and hymenoptera

What lies beneath: Melbourne’s often maligned surf has created a growing snorkelling scene

One dedicated Facebook group now has almost 20,000 members, attracted by sea life found just metres from Port Phillip Bay’s shore

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