“europe seems hellbent on creating the most hostile environment for bears possible”

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

James fair’s article ‘the burning question on moors’ (October 2025) makes a good stab at presenting the views of both sides of this debate. But by presenting the issue as conservationists versus grous

How is climate change – and consequently evolving farming practices – affecting hunting? Andrew Sallis finds out

Can we really bring back long-extinct animals, or are scientists just making close copies?

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