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Britain’s native breeds and their grazing talents are an integral part of the drive to balance food production with biodiversity recovery. Kate Green explains why we should look closer to home in the quest to re-create the natural habitats of the past

The guam kingfisher – also known as the sihek – has been extinct in the wild since 1988 but was successfully introduced to Palmyra Atoll last year. However, they aren’t native to the island (which is

What the scientists are saying… The prince ...

Britain could be getting a new ecosystem engineer: in the wake of the ongoing and now legal reintroductions of beavers into watersheds around the country, two Wildlife Trusts now want to bring back th

D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at

Mass extinctions are a widespread and rapid loss of life on Earth, typically in response to some kind of global catastrophe or change in climate. These events have occurred throughout Earth’s history