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• ‘They’re stuck’: Cape Cod seeing more whale, turtle and dolphin strandings

  28-12-2024 16:00
  
  Changing tides have led to an increase of beached marine life, whom rescuers scramble to save before they dieWhile Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is known as a popular vacation destination in the north-east US, it has built a reputation for an entirely different reason this year: animal strandings.Dolphins, whales, sea lions and turtles are turning up in large numbers on the beaches of the famous peninsula in a phenomenon that has experts scrambling to execute more rescue operations than ever before.
  
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• How owls helped me conquer my fear of the dark

  28-12-2024 16:00
  With the aid of the birds I was able to learn to love the nightAs a child I was afraid of the dark, as so many children are. Not the dark in and of itself, but what I was certain it contained: bad spirits, bad people, monsters with ill intent. The dark hid creatures with talons and teeth, or men with weapons who would use them to sneak up on an unsuspecting child and do them harm. The dark let curses slip out of buildings or hedges and attach to a child walking past. I kept myself bounded within
  
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• ‘We have to change our attitude’: wildlife expert says rhino horn trade must be legalised

  28-12-2024 12:59
  
  Call for illicit market to be taken out of hands of criminals as numbers continue to fall drastically due to poaching International trade in rhino horns should be legalised, a leading wildlife expert has urged.Writing in the research journal Science, Martin Wikelski argues only carefully monitored, legitimate transactions in horns can save the world’s remaining species of rhinoceros. Continue reading...
  
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• Young Country Diary: What’s that piercing cry in the winter woods? | Polly

  28-12-2024 12:01
  
  Hertfordshire: Everything was quiet apart from a screeching red kite. Maybe it thought I was a threat on my bikeAs I cycled up the narrow country lane, I stopped when I heard an almighty piercing call. I quickly spotted an extremely large bird perching among the bare branches of the tall trees that loomed above me. Luckily, I kept my eyes on the magnificent bird as it took flight, because despite the woodland winter nakedness, it was camouflaged so well in the bare branches that I woul
  
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• Young country diary: Outnumbered by hundreds of swooping starlings | Tilly

  28-12-2024 12:00
  
  North Yorkshire: They seemed to be circling us, in what’s called a murmuration. But we were not safeDriving home from a visit to my grandparents, my brothers, mum, dad and I were all in the car, unaware that anything was going to happen. Suddenly, we saw that quite a few starlings were flying above our heads. Our windows were down, and rustling noises were coming from the sky. More and more and more flew and flew and flew in odd patterns.We stopped outside a local butcher’s; the star
  
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