Feral cats: pests or wonders of evolution?

From 9,000m up, the view of a seemingly infinite stretch of boreal forest gave rise to the realisation that our brilliant idea, hatched over a pint in the Green Dragon in Bungay, might not be so brill

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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

The Land of the Leopard is a national park near Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia, about 50 kilometres northeast of North Korea, and bordering China. It is the primary habitat of both the Amur tig