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• Pandas in Berlin: Meng Meng and Jiao Qing arrive in new home

  24-06-2017 22:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Meng Meng and Jiao Qing arrive in Germany from China ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
  
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• Anti-poaching drive brings Siberia’s tigers back from brink

  24-06-2017 21:10 via theguardian.com
  
  A WWF appeal aims to highlight the threat of habitat destruction and climate change on wild populationsIn February, Pavel Fomenko was told that the body of a young female tiger had been discovered underneath a car parked outside the town of Luchegorsk, in eastern Russia. Fomenko – head of rare species conservation for WWF Russia – took the corpse for examination where he uncovered the grim details of the animal’s death. Related: The Siberian tiger protector - in picturesContinu
  
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• The Siberian tiger protector - in pictures

  24-06-2017 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Photographer Antonio Olmos travelled to the Russian far east to document the work of Pavel Fomenko, a man of the wilderness and tiger protector with the World Wildlife Fund You can become a tiger protector with the WWF hereContinue reading...
  
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• New Orleans mayor: US climate change policy cannot wait for Trump

  24-06-2017 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mitch Landrieu says cities will lead as federal government is ‘paralysed’NYC’s de Blasio backs push as Miami Beach shows anti-sea rise workUS cities will lead national policy on climate change after the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, working to reduce emissions and become more resilient to rising sea levels, Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans said at an annual meeting in Florida.Related: The fight against climate change: four cities leading t
  
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• Fatal attraction – writers' and artists' obsession with the sea

  24-06-2017 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From Shakespeare to Woolf, Turner to Gormley, Philip Hoare explores the eternal allure of the ocean‘The sea has many voices / Many gods and many voices,” TS Eliot wrote. “We cannot think of a time that is oceanless.” “In civilisations without boats,” Michel Foucault observed, “dreams dry up.” It is, plainly, a fluid state, a place of transition and transmutation; the place from which we all came.In the womb we swim in salty water, sprouting re
  
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• Quarter of England’s rivers at risk of running dry, finds WWF

  24-06-2017 08:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Freedom-of-information data reveals threat of drought that would devastate wildlife, with government slow to act on water management A quarter of England’s rivers are at risk of running dry, with devastating consequences for wildlife, according to data obtained by WWF under freedom of information rules.Fish are most obviously affected when rivers slow to a trickle, particularly those that migrate upstream such as salmon, trout, eels and lampreys. But animals such as water voles are also ha
  
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• Steve Irwin to be honoured with Hollywood Walk of Fame star

  24-06-2017 02:51 via theguardian.com
  
  The late ‘Crocodile Hunter’ is being recognised for his contribution to the entertainment industry through wildlife documentariesThe late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin will be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the entertainment industry through wildlife documentaries.Irwin, who died in September 2006, after being struck multiple times by a stingray barb while filming in waters off Port Douglas in far north Queensland, is the only
  
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• Paris agreement's 1.5C target 'only way' to save coral reefs, Unesco says

  24-06-2017 00:48 via theguardian.com
  
  First global assessment of climate change impact on world heritage-listed reefs says local efforts are ‘no longer sufficient’Greater emissions reductions and delivering on the Paris climate agreement are now “the only opportunity” to save coral reefs the world over from decline, with local responses no longer sufficient, a report by Unesco has found.The first global scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change on the 29 world heritage-listed coral reefs, publish
  
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