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Asiatic cheetahs are confined to Iran after extensive hunting in
India

Spotted again? India wants to bring back the cheetah

Andrew Buncombe: A Mughal Emperor kept more than 1,000 for hunting, but the big cat was declared extinct in the country 60 years ago.

Inside Nature

Michael McCarthy with a mountain ringlet in the Lake District

The butterfly only visible at 1,500ft

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Michael McCarthy travels to the Lake District in the latest stage of our Great British Butterfly Hunt

England's wildlife sites 'better protected now'

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Huge improvements have been made in protecting England's best wildlife sites in the past decade, a powerful all-party group of MPs said yesterday – but still more needs to be done.

Michael McCarthy: Look closely into the depths of a river ...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Nature Notebook: A simple stream is so much more to its creatures: trout world, mallard chick playground, dipper workplace

Victims of the mountain pine beetle - which is native to North America - are easy to spot

Bugs! The critters eating America's forests

Sunday, 5 July 2009

They may be tiny, but they're marching across the US in their billions, killing vast swathes of woodland. Graham Mole reports on a modern-day plague.

Abdul, a baby wombat, is cradled by his keeper at Sydney's Taronga Zoo - there are only 138 of the animals living in one colony in a forest in central Queensland

The wombat: back from the brink

Sunday, 5 July 2009

One of the world's most threatened mammals manages to go forth into the forest – and multiply

This photograph provided by the journal Science shows Soay Sheep on St Kilda Archipelago near Scotland

How global warming shrank St Kilda's sheep

Friday, 3 July 2009

Darwinism turned on its head as milder winters allow smaller lambs to survive

Flood warnings issued as heatwave continues

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Britain's hottest week in years is threatening to become a wash-out, as parts of the South West were put on flood alert.

There has been a 19,174 fall in the Farne Islands' puffin population in the last five years

Sat nav fitted to puffins in bid to halt decline

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Tracking devices glued to birds as scientists try to explain slump

The harlequin ladybird has become a common sight as it has spread across the UK

'Voracious' ladybird threatens native species

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

The recent arrival of the invasive harlequin ladybird in the UK is likely to threaten more than 1,000 native species, scientists warned today.

Bathers enjoy the sun poolside at Brockwell Lido outdoor swimming pool in London as Britain enjoys the second day of a heatwave

After the heatwave, stand by for the storms

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

After the hottest June for three years and a scorching start to July, forecatsers warn of a soaking.

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