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A hedgehog officer explains how to help hedgehogs in your garden
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The world's biggest conference on species protection has opened in South Africa amid differing views on the survival of elephants.
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Horses have joined a select club of animals that can communicate by pointing to symbols, say scientists.
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The body tasked with managing trade in endangered species will oppose efforts to increase global protection for elephants, saying it could spark a new trade in ivory.
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Flu carried by migratory birds poses a risk to penguins living in Antarctica, scientists warn.
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Tropical dry forests are among the most threatened habitats on the planet, yet remain overlooked by scientists and conservationists, warn researchers.
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The government is to outline its plans to strengthen collaborative research between the UK and China.
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A British man who lived in the Swiss Alps as a goat for three days wins one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes.
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Four rare white lion cubs have been born in a zoo in Poland.
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Scientists bring singing fish into their lab to work out the biological secret of an aquatic creature that hums at night.
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Scientists solve the bizarre mystery of the fish that hums at night.
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The Duke of Cambridge has called on world leaders to do more to combat the illegal wildlife trade.
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Evidence for an early exodus of modern humans from Africa may have been detected in living humans.
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China's first space station is expected to fall back to Earth in the second half of 2017, amid speculation authorities have lost control of it.
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How the government is trying to trace nests of invasive hornet which kills honey bees
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall says trading ivory not verified as antique should be banned
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The British Veterinary Association warns would-be dog owners to think twice before buying breeds with fashionably "flat-faced" features - because of growing concerns for their welfare.
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Watching a tragic film could have an unexpected benefit in triggering a feel-good chemical, research suggests.
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A park in Bangkok has been overrun by monitor lizards.
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Meet the planet's hardiest animal - the tardigrade - that has just revealed a genetic secret that could help protect human cells.
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A deer has been filmed bouncing along a beach in Poole Harbour.
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An invasive hornet that kills honey bees is spotted in Britain for the first time, experts confirm.
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Dr Peter Marra explains why pet cats should not be allowed to roam free.
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A parliamentary inquiry recommends video monitoring to tackle abuses in abattoirs, after secretly filmed videos shocked the French public.
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Physicists have set a new bar for quantum teleportation - transferring information from one place to another without anything physically travelling between the locations.
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Archaeologists believe they have found a lost Anglo-Saxon royal palace about four miles (6km) from one of Britain's best known finds.
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Outdoor exercise delivers an estimated £2.2bn of health benefits to adults in England each year, a study suggests.
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China has been building two wind turbines every hour, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has told BBC News.
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Allowing mangrove forests to recover naturally result in more resilient habitats that benefit both wildlife and people, say conservationists.
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Engineer Naveen Rabelli has completed a 6,000 mile journey from India to the UK in a solar-powered tuk-tuk.
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A BBC team finds rare Java hawks for sale, as environmentalists say more must be done to tackle Indonesia's illegal bird trade.
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Some of the winning images from this year's competition.
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Arctic ice cover in 2016 reached the second lowest minimum on record, tied with 2007.
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Scientists have recreated the colour patterns of a dinosaur, revealing a camouflage used by animals today.
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A large item of debris found off the coast of Tanzania belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australian investigators confirm.
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Nearly 500 horseshoe crabs wash up dead on Japan's southern beaches, near Kitakyushu City, mystifying experts.
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China launches a second experimental space station, Tiangong 2, as it looks to have a crewed outpost by around 2022.
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The company set up to manufacture Europe's next-generation rocket - the Ariane 6 - says it is open to orders.
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Conservationists seek public help to protect the famously inquisitive birds.
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Tesla has been criticised by a former business partner for "pushing the envelope" on car safety with its Autopilot technology.
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Analysis of rocks in the Western Isles has provided "a tantalising clue" that Mars may contain habitats which can potentially support life.
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Diego the tortoise, 100, has fathered around 800 offspring on his native Galapagos Archipelago.
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A crow that survives only in captivity has been found to adapt and use tools to find food, according to scientists.
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A crow that survives only in captivity has been found to adapt and use tools to find food, according to scientists.
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Astronomers have discovered signs of a baby planet developing around another star.
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The European Space Agency has released details of the position and brightness of more than a billion stars.
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The health of the countryside varies depending on how it is measured.
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The opening of data sources in agricultural research is needed to deliver the global goal of delivering zero hunger by 2030, say campaigners.
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Europe's Gaia space telescope releases its first batch of data as it builds the most precise map ever made of the night sky.
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One of Japan's most active volcanoes, Sakurajima, is due for a major eruption within the next 30 years, according to researchers examining new data.
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