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Conservationists fight for 'Galapagos of plants'

Leading conservationists have drawn up a blueprint to save one of the world's most important sites for conservation known as the "Galapagos for plants" because of its exceptionally rare native plants.

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Paradise lost: El Padre bay on Robinson Crusoe island

Why Robinson Crusoe island is at risk

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Steve Connor on the threat to the archipelago that is an evolutionary hothouse.

Michael McCarthy: 'Tis the season for 'berry baskers'

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Nature Notebook: Most splendid of the berry displays currently on view at Kew are the hollies of the half-mile long Holly Walk

Greens urge tuna ban

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Environmentalists called for a global ban on the trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, after the body responsible for managing stocks cut quotas but did not suspend fishing of the threatened species.

Borneo's orang-utans

Conservationists do 'deal with the devil' to save orang-utans

Monday, 16 November 2009

Agreement sought with palm-oil industry to create ape-saving forest corridors

Huge seas break over the lighthouse at Newhaven, East Sussex, during yesterday's storms

Dover closed as winds hit 100mph

Sunday, 15 November 2009

Ferries cancelled, homes flooded, and trapped drivers rescued as South bears brunt of storms

It costs £5,000 a year to keep a horse, and between £300 and £800 to have it destroyed

In a recession, they shoot horses, don't they?

Sunday, 15 November 2009

Economic woes mean a grim winter ahead for riders and their mounts

An ivory carver at work in Guangzhou. Such carvings can reach well over £600 in the city's market

Demand for illegal ivory soars in booming China

Sunday, 15 November 2009

Twenty years after a worldwide ban, there's a new black-market trade in elephant tusks from Africa

Fierce storms forecast to bring 80mph winds

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Britain has been warned to batten down the hatches today after forecasters predicted "the first storms of the season", with fierce winds and flooding in some areas.

The mother shark stitched up after the bite

Sharp-toothed shark acts as midwife

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Visitors to a New Zealand acquatic centre were stunned to see one shark give another shark an impromptu caesarean section.

Michael McCarthy: Minor languages, major importance

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Nature Notebook: Praise be for the encouragement that the EU has given these languages

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