Canada’s boar war - Wild pigs are invasive, destructive and dangerous, and their populations in Canada are exploding out of control. How can we fight back?
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats
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Norway's breeding programme sees arctic foxes return in high numbers – foxes still listed as under threat of becoming extinct in Scandinavia
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Adored and endangered: The complex world of the Japanese eel
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Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts
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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps, with more wasps inside – introduction of Glanville fritillary leads to emergence of three new species on island of Sottunga
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The mystery of Denmark's vanishing wolf pack – are hunters to blame?
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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Tasmanian devils born on Australian mainland for first time in 3,000 years
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New Zealand: Fight for the Wild documentary series
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Bee population steady in Dutch cities thanks to pollinator strategy
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The last two northern white rhinos on earth
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An invasion of king crabs from Russia into Norway created a lucrative fishing industry – and difficult choices
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Mutant crayfish clones take over cemetery after aquarium escape
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Rio F1 racetrack plans add fuel to Brazil deforestation row: Most of city’s last flatland area along with 180,000 trees would be destroyed if project goes ahead
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Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year
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HBO's 'The Wire' inspired a fake turtle egg that spies on poachers
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The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think
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The true story of Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South in America
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When the giant Galapagos tortoise faced extinction, Diego answered the call
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Mexico finds 15,000 turtles in crates bound for China
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‘Murder hornets’ in the US: The rush to stop the Asian giant hornet
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Eleven percent rise in threatened Swedish species over the past five years, according to the latest report from SLU, the Swedish Species Information Centre
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When is a dove a Kiwi? Record-setting bird blown from Australia to a petroleum processing ship off the coast of New Zealand killed by New Zealand authorities on arrival
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Invasion of the ‘Frankenbees’: The danger of building a better bee
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Jumping worms are taking over North American forests
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The plant ecology of the Los Angeles River
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New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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For these species, their biological sex is the most consequential trait. (Extreme sexual dimorphism)
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Survival by degrees: 389 bird species on the brink
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Forest restoration leads to major win for the Kirtland’s Warbler
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The missing link that wasn’t
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The Finnish Environment Institute Syke is developing drone imaging and mapping to detect invasive species
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Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths
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British trophy hunters paying to shoot 100 puffins at a time during trips to Iceland
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Finland's first sighting of golden jackal sets off political debate
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The snakes that ate Florida
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Dragon quest: Australia kicks off search for possibly extinct lizard
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'Earthworm dilemma' has climate scientists racing to keep up
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Malaysia could lose last male Sumatran rhino
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How a drunken swim in Nevada's Devils Hole and a dead endangered pupfish led to a rare prosecution and prison sentence
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This new species of ancient carnivore was bigger than a polar bear
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The Hitler Beetle and other oddities of scientific naming
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New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines
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Not seen for 100 years, a rare Galápagos tortoise was considered all but extinct – until now
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The Australian government has formally recognised the extinction of a tiny island rodent, the Bramble Cay melomys - the first known demise of a mammal because of human-induced climate change.
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species The news report from...
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction
The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species
The news report from 2016: First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change
The scientific report from 2016: Confirmation of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola on Bramble Cay, Torres Strait (PDF)
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DNA testing reveals baffling bird is three species in one
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Government experts say plan to prevent animal extinctions is failing
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