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• Snake hunters capture 106 Burmese pythons in Florida Everglades

  27-02-2016 21:16
  
  Florida Fish and Wildlife officials commissioned hunters’ help to tackle thousands of invasive pythons from south-east Asia that have overrun the EvergladesSnake hunters captured 106 Burmese pythons after weeks of traipsing through the Florida Everglades, state wildlife officials announced on Saturday, along with awards for the most impressive catches.Thousands of invasive pythons from south-east Asia live and prey on native creatures in the Everglades, and Florida Fish and Wildlife offici
  
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• VIDEO: Rise in butterfly numbers 'inspirational'

  27-02-2016 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of Monarch butterflies travelling thousands of kilometres south for winter is 'inspirational' conservationists say.
  
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• Time, BBC and others drive historic deal to protect Canada's Great Bear Rainforest

  27-02-2016 16:30
  
  Companies like Kimberly Clark and Canada’s Globe and Mail have used their purchasing power to help forge a historic agreement that prevents logging in 85% of the British Columbia rainforestEarlier this month, a groundbreaking agreement was reached to prohibit logging in the majority of the 6.4m-hectare Canadian rainforest known as the Great Bear Rainforest – a stretch of coastal ecosystem nearly the size of Ireland.
  The winners in the deal were environmental groups and the First Nati
  
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• Pictures of the day: 27 February 2016

  27-02-2016 10:14
  
  Today: Inverted orangutans, gas masks in Kosovo and selfies with Wookies
  
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• New index ranks Monsanto, Dupont and Syngenta on efforts to help smallholders

  27-02-2016 09:00
  
  The word’s leading seed companies traditionally have a poor record of reaching farmers in food insecure regions
  The world’s leading seed companies must do more to increase smallholder farmers’ access to seeds. This is the conclusion of the recently launched Access to Seeds Index, which ranks leading seed companies on their efforts to improve the productivity of smallholder farmers.While the US-based multinational DuPont Pioneer ranks highest in a list of global seed companies f
  
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• Inside America's battle on wildlife trafficking

  27-02-2016 07:15
  
  Carlos Pages knows how to take precautions before he opens a crate; the last thing the wildlife inspector wants is to find a deadly cobra loose -- again -- at Miami International airport.
  
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• Clive James: ‘None of us realised that the bushfires and floods were climate change’

  27-02-2016 07:00
  
  At our weatherboard infants’ school in the bush, the memorably severe Miss Cashman had to get us to safety when the bushfire cameOur poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, writes poems that must be blessings for schoolteachers, because almost every line has a splinter of brilliance in it, and even the most resistant pupil would notice a fragment of language jumping into life. Her poem called Mrs Midas evokes the difficulties for a wife whose husband turns things to gold when he touches them. They
  
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• Treecreepers at my toes, a wildcat on camera

  27-02-2016 06:30
  
  Achvaneran, Scottish Highlands At the feeding station the birds were centimetres from my feet, unconcerned, while the trail camera picked out our night visitorsOne of our three wildlife feeding stations in the garden is at the end of the house, where it has shelter from one wall and from four fruit trees. I call it “the sanctuary”. There are seven feeders hanging from the fruit trees, with a variety of food.At dusk, on the ground below the trees and on a flat-topped tree stump, I put
  
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• Flint water crisis: Michigan governor's advisers warned months before disclosure

  27-02-2016 00:00
  
  Rick Snyder’s advisers suggested to stop using corrosive river and buy residents bottled water before contamination ‘gets too far out of control’, emails revealDespite concerns among advisers to Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan regarding water quality in Flint, state officials for months rebuffed suggestions to switch the city back to its previous water supply, citing cost as a primary factor, emails released by Snyder’s office on Friday showed.Advisers advocated moving F
  
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