(By Emilia Griffin on 12th January 2024) Imagine a forest, full of colour and sound. But as the darkness of...
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What do poetry and conservation have in common? Both mean different things to different people, both aren't prioritised in schools...
Lying under draped mosquito nets in the Ecuadorian Amazon, I typed, ‘man raised ocelot in the jungle for 18 months’,...
By Jack Bojan11th February 2022 Imagine a creature that is both hairy like a mammal and scaly like a fish,...
Leigh West24th December 2020 Children know that the North Pole is home to Santa’s workshop and is bustling during the...
This week the new theme for the autumn edition of the I,Science magazine, which is Earth, as our inspiration. There...
Andrew Purcell White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) You may be aware of species, such as kangaroos for instance, which use saliva...
Andrew Purcell Increasing average global temperatures are allowing alien species from Mediterranean climates to invade into more northerly areas....
Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) There is a paradox in nature conservation, that the efforts taken to protect a species from extinction,...
Amur (Siberian) Tiger Panthera tigris altaica (Photo by Andrew Purcell) The Chinese Year of the Tiger came to an end...
Andrew Purcell Painted Lady (Cynthia cardui) Almost a third of butterflies in Europe are in decline and one in ten...