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IT HAS BEEN DONE ON LUNDY (size: 4.45km²), Ruapuke Island (16km²) and South Georgia (3,500km²), but now conservationists want to eliminate non-native, invasive predators from much, much larger sites:

As I type this, we’re enduring that rare thing in the UK: a heatwave. It can make life uncomfortable by day and unbearable at night. It also makes you acutely aware of how you sleep and begs the quest

Weather deities, magical portals, earth-moving giants and haunted valleys – Britain’s mountains are humming with myth, magic and mystery. Hanna Lindon explores upland legends from around the country

THE DEEP SEA IS BY FAR THE LARGEST habitat on Earth. It is, says Natalie Lawrence in her book Enchanted Creatures, “the last wilderness vast enough to hide monsters”. Unsurprisingly, many myths have a

Zoologist, writer, TV presenter – Dr Sasha Norris has had a glittering career in academia and the media since she graduated from the University of Bristol more than 30 years ago. Yet today she’s kneel

In Sydney, Australia, sulfur-crested cockatoos have a reputation for raiding skips and bins and being able to figure out a way past almost any lock people might use to try and keep them out. Now, they