Back from the brink?

AS RARE RAINS SWEEP ACROSS NORTHERN NAMIBIA, ITS LANDSCAPES SPRING TO LIFE, WITH FLOWERS BLOOMING IN THE DESERT, WILDLIFE RETURNING TO THE WATER-SOAKED BUSH — AND A RHINO POPULATION THAT CARRIES ON REGARDLESS

The cloning of animals – pets, farm animals, racehorses – is today done routinely on an industrial scale. Bianca Bosker investigates

They’ve recently made headlines for interfering with boats, but intelligent, family-focused and remarkably long-lived orcas–better known as killer whales–contain multitudes,

The white-tailed eagle, the UK’s largest bird of prey, was brought back from extinction – and it all started with an ambitious project on a mountainous Scottish island, half a century ago...

It all used to be so simple. The story of how we – that is Homo sapiens, today’s humans – emerged from Africa and spread across what’s become Europe and Asia was a neat, straightforward narrative. It

A s you may well know, cheetahs are an endangered species. The latest research suggests there are now fewer than 7,000 left in the wild and the majority of those are currently in Africa. In a lifelong