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• The wildlife-friendly hedge: Country diary 100 years ago

  15-04-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 21 April 1917Surrey, April 19
  The bush harrow has been at work in the meadows, and light rain, dewing the grass tops, glistens even under the clouds along broad green paths which extend from end to end of the field. The blackbirds have been very active these past few days, scurrying noisily about the hedges and piping in regular notes up among the trees. There is a nest in a hollow of the hedge bottom, built where a thorn begins to branch out fr
  
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• April the giraffe tends to wobbly newborn calf – video

  15-04-2017 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  April, a 15-year-old giraffe, tends to her newly born calf after giving birth live on a New York zoo’s YouTube channel on Saturday. Adventure Park in Harpursville had been livestreaming its pregnant giraffe throughout her labour, and captured the big moment shortly before 10am ET. At least 1.2 million people watched the eventWatch the Animal Adventure Park giraffe cam live on their YouTube channelWorld watches as New York zoo streams birth of calf to April the giraffe
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• New York zoo livestreams birth of calf to April the pregnant giraffe

  15-04-2017 15:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Adventure Park uses YouTube to broadcast eagerly awaited eventCalf will be named through a zoo competitionA New York zoo’s livestream video of its pregnant giraffe is showing her giving birth.Related: April the pregnant giraffe: live stream attracts millions – and YouTube censorsContinue reading...
  
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• Me and my garden: ‘I want to live on the first road to have a hedgehog box in every garden’

  15-04-2017 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Stuntman Wayne de Strete on why he loves nothing more than sitting by his garden pond in Brighton, watching and listening to the local wildlifeI try to channel my adrenaline to enhance my performance, which is physically very demanding. I mostly do live events rather than film work, and sometimes I play themed characters at corporate events. I like doing those, because no one is punching me and I don’t have to fall off anything. If you’re on a film set, you just turn up and do the fi
  
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• Hanging on rather than flourishing … a rare flower

  15-04-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  New Forest Clustered around two trees, and shaded by them, is a narrow-leaved lungwort, unreported in the area for nearly 20 yearsWe head into the forest in search of a scarce plant. Nine years ago almost to the day, I chanced upon a single stem of narrow-leaved lungwort (Pulmonaria longifolia), and I want to find out if it is still there. Then, it had been growing in the shelter of a young bramble, with primroses alongside. Before setting out, I check with Martin Rand, the botanical recorder fo
  
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• Three baby koalas stolen from carer's home in Brisbane

  15-04-2017 05:17 via theguardian.com
  
  The joeys, which require supplemental feeding and medication, are unlikely to survive if released into the wildPolice are calling for help from the public in hunting down three koala joeys that were stolen from a house near Brisbane.The three koalas, about 14 months old, were taken from a carer’s house at Ormiston between 9pm on Thursday and 6am on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• Hunting the Ghost Fungus: glowing mushrooms in Australia’s forests

  15-04-2017 01:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Standing in a dark pine forest surrounded by bioluminescent mushrooms is as magical and mysterious as it sounds – and worth the midnight trek into the mountains three hours out of SydneyIt’s just before midnight and we’re in the middle of an eerie pine forest in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, dodging leeches and lugging heavy camera equipment. Continue reading...
  
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