There’s a lovely film on youtube called How Wolves Change Rivers. Narrated by the British writer and environmental campaigner George Monbiot, and largely drawn from his book Feral, it describes how th

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An ecosystem evolves across thousands of years, a biological interaction that is both intricate and fragile. The arrival of a new species can disrupt the balance, as we have seen in Britain with grey

Following two weeks spent acclimatising in a special enclosure near Vylkove, a town on the edge of the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, it was time for four young eagle owls to leave. Though the bi

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T HE FOX STOOD IN THE shadows of ...