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MORNING HAS BROKEN

DAWN CHORUS - Spring is the best time to experience a musical feast like no other, as birds announce the start of each new day

Shark meat found in pet food

Consumers in South-East Asia are unwittingly feeding endangered sharks to their cats and dogs due to poor labelling

GILLIAN BURKE

"Could we lose the thread of nature connection in just a few generations?”

HOPPING BACK

Citizen science is reversing the fortunes of the UK’s largest grasshopper

HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH LOCAL WILDLIFE

Photographic opportunities of the natural world are never far from home, even if you live in the city

CONSERVATION DOGS

Dogs have been herding sheep and finding drugs for years. Now they're saving wildlife too.

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

Lucy Cooke on the extraordinary reproductive feat of one marsupial

Conservationist still under arrest

Hopes for the release of Morad Tahbaz, imprisoned by the Iranian government in 2018, have been dashed

It's party time for cuttlefish

A season of dancing, light displays and flirtatious shenanigans is on the cards for the cephalopods

TINY DANCER

The immortal freshwater organism that tangles prey with its toxic, harpoon-flinging tentacles

Kill the cull?

According to new research, the badger cull isn't working. We take a look at the science.

PURPLE HAZE

Step into a rare lowland flower meadow and lose yourself among dreamy wild orchids

DIG FOR BUTTERFLIES

Britain's butterflies are struggling It's more important than ever to do what we can to help.

CITY LIVING

It's been 50 years since the first city farm was established and their role in providing a haven for nature continues to grow

FRIEND. FOE. FOX.

They live among us in the city and countryside - yet foxes are too often misunderstood and persecuted. Intimate photos cast new light on our divisive but beautiful neighbour.

AT HOME WITH THE CLAN

As the rainy season brings wildebeest back to Zambia's Liuwa Plain grasslands, spotted hyenas prepare for a feast

AGAINST THE ODDS

Brazil's Pantanal was consumed by wildfires in 2020. Miraculously, its jaguars not only survived, but are now thriving in the world's most famous wetland.

Giraffe numbers on the up

A positive population trend has been reported by a giraffe conservation charity, providing hope for the iconic species

The digital craze bringing big bucks - and big problems

NFTs are raising cash for conservation. But what on earth are they? And what are the downsides?

RIVER TREASURE

The freshwater pearl mussel is now rare in Britain. But a conservation team in Cumbria is determined to restore this gem to our rivers

MARK CARWARDINE

OPINION: “I have a solution:ban all industrial fishing on the high seas”

Intimate portraits of flamingos

BOOK HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH

SHAKIN' ALL OVER

15-SPINED STICKLEBACK. GOOD LOOKS DON'T IMPRESS A FEMALE 15-SPINED STICKLEBACK - IT'S ALL ABOUT THE WAY HE MOVES

BEE LINE

Beautiful and intimate images reveal extraordinary insights into the social structure, communication, defensive strategies and sex lives of wild honeybees

GREAT ESCAPE

As zoos and circuses release their captive elephants, what solutions exist to offer these giants a better quality of life?

GARDENERS OF THE FOREST

How a living fossil is making modern Costa Rica greener

Ancient bison are coming back starting in Kent...

They've been absent in the UK wild for thousands of years, but now a special project is welcoming these "Woolly bulldozers" home

RHAPSODY IN BLUE

BLUEBELLS IN BLOOM. BRITAIN’S WOODLANDS WELCOME SPRING BY ROLLING OUT AN ASTOUNDING –AND ALMOST UNIQUE – BLUE CARPET

Save the Easter Bunny

Baby rabbits nibbling at meadow edges make endearing scenes across lowland Britain, or they did until recent years. Our rabbit population is under threat – so much so that conservationists are building ‘hotels’ to protect the species, reports Amy-Jane Beer

Spring Chicks

In hedgerows and on trees and cliff ledges across the country, the eggs of wild birds are hatching and new chicks are emerging – trembling, hungry and vulnerable. How do baby birds survive? Tim Birkhead explores an annual spring miracle