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EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Biodiversity Conservation

The 10 best woods and forests for spring flowers
Guardian Unlimited | 08 Apr 2011
A visit to Priestley Wood in spring or early summer should test even the most knowledgeable plant-identifier. Some 130 flowering plants have been recorded in the woods, which have been designated a site of special scientific interest. There are relatively large populations of the twayblade orchid, the common spotted orchid, wild garlic, broad-leaved helleborine, herb Paris, primrose and the ever-popular bluebell.

Schoolchildren visit the Natural History Museum's butterfly exhibition - in pictures
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Apr 2011
Children from a school in Hackney are among the first visitors to the Sensational Butterflies exhibition.

United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Conservation | Environmental Awareness

Can you identify an animal by its eye?
Guardian Unlimited | 05 Apr 2011
Test your wildlife identification skills and see how many species you can identify from a close-up of their eyes.

Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Awareness

Letters: Vanished landscape
Guardian Unlimited | 05 Apr 2011
Surely Jane Austen would recognise a remarkable change to the landscape of the South Downs since her time (Report, 1 April)? Natural history writers such as WH Hudson would be devastated by it. Grazing of these hills for thousands of years had produced an open landscape providing the freedom to...

New reality show: Millions watch bald eagles nesting
Reuters | 03 Apr 2011
A new reality show has gone viral on the Internet featuring a life and death struggle, a love story and a birds eye view of -- an eagle family.

Scotland | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Climate Change | Environmental Awareness

Small birds thriving after harsh winter
Guardian Unlimited | 31 Mar 2011
Small birds have made a comeback this year after a dramatic decline in their numbers last spring, according to findings from the wildlife survey Big Garden Birdwatch. Experts feared the worst after last year's results, which showed that the coldest winter for 30 years, in 2009- 10, had been...

Anne the elephant leaves Bobby Roberts circus after cruelty inquiry
Guardian Unlimited | 31 Mar 2011
RSPCA and police called in after Animal Defenders secretly film circus worker kicking and beating Anne the elephant. One of the country's most famous circuses has become a target for animal welfare activists after a worker was secretly filmed beating an elephant. Police were called to the Bobby Roberts Super Circus big top near Knutsford, Cheshire, as families from the audience leaving the performance were heckled by protesters.

United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Biodiversity and Trade | Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Awareness

Granny osprey flies back to Scotland from Africa for record 21st time
Guardian Unlimited | 29 Mar 2011
Lady, oldest osprey in the UK, is preparing to mate in Dunkeld, Scotland, after travelling thousands of miles from the GambiaOne of the world's oldest ospreys, which has already laid 58 eggs and seen 48 chicks leave her nest, has returned to her roost in the Highlands, breaking her own record for...

Scotland | Aviation | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation

Adder abnormalities lead to UK's first genetic survey of snakes
Guardian Unlimited | 27 Mar 2011
Researchers want to find out if decreasing numbers of snakes caused by urbanisation has led to inbreeding among adders. With a quick dart of the arm, snake catcher Nigel Hand snares his prey and holds the wriggling adder aloft. The bronze snake, hissing and flicking out its black forked tongue, has...

United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Awareness | Education

The week in wildlife
Guardian Unlimited | 25 Mar 2011
Spring sightings, music for plants and flood-escaping spiders - the pick of this week's images from the natural world.

Biodiversity | Biodiversity and Trade | Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Awareness

Ireland's wildlife audit unveiled
Yahoo! News | 23 Mar 2011
Ireland's scenic mountains woodlands and waterways are home to more than 31000 different species of flora and fauna.

Northern Ireland | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Forests and Woodlands

Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation
Guardian Unlimited | 20 Mar 2011
Yann Arthus-Bertrand isn't just an aerial photographer: he's on a mission to save mankind by teaching us to love our beautiful planet. To many, he is France's answer to Al Gore, but why do some think he's an "enormous idiot"? In 2005, while filming the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Yann Arthus-Bertrand fell to earth in a helicopter accident. On the way down, he says, he had no fear of dying, but he was filled with thoughts of "home".

Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Awareness

Illegal trawlers are Bethune's new target
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Mar 2011
Pete Bethune spent four months in a Japanese jail for action against whalers. Now he has new targets in his sights "Don't make me out to be violent, or some kind of cowboy," says Pete Bethune, as he holds me in his steady, brown-eyed gaze. Seven months on from his release from a Japanese prison, after being convicted for taking direct action against whaling ships and crew, we've met in a south London pub to discuss his new campaign group, Earthrace Conservation.

England | Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Awareness | Education

Sonar soundwaves 'drive terrified whales to their death onshore'
Daily Mail | 15 Mar 2011
The study by researchers at St Andrews University said beaked whales may also react with terror to noise from offshore wind turbines and oil and gas exploration.

Biodiversity Conservation | Industry | Marine Life | Noise Pollution

Great British Marine Animals
Guardian Unlimited | 09 Mar 2011
Toxic sea slugs, battling limpets and aggressive gobies are among the sea life featured in the book Great British Marine Animals

United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Awareness

Wales to press ahead with badger cull
Guardian Unlimited | 09 Mar 2011
Welsh rural affairs minister Elin Jones gives go ahead to much-delayed move intended to control bovine tuberculosis. A badger cull in Wales to curb tuberculosis in cattle could finally be launched, just weeks after the Welsh assembly government said the necessary powers would come into force from...

Wales | Agriculture and Fisheries | Biodiversity Conservation | Conservation | Health and Environment

Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts - revi...
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Mar 2011
As this illuminating book warns, our desire to prettify Britain's abandoned spaces will strip them of their character. Other nations have their deserts, jungles and tundra, but where is Britain's wilderness? Our countryside has been carefully shaped by human hand. Even our apparently untamed moorlands owe their character to the demands of sheep, deer and grouse production.

United Kingdom | Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Awareness

The week in wildlife
Guardian Unlimited | 25 Feb 2011
From mysterious pony deaths on Bodmin Moor to a grey whale in a calving lagoon, this week's pick of images from the natural world.

United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation

Mass rat cull for remote UK island
Guardian Unlimited | 24 Feb 2011
Eradication programme aims to save millions of seabirds from invasive rats on South Georgia. Testing for the biggest rat eradication programme in history is beginning on a remote UK island in the south Atlantic. Scientists are preparing to drop poison in a limited area of South Georgia in a bid to save the world's most southern songbird from extinction and restore tens of millions of seabirds to the island's breeding grounds.

United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Pollution | Science and Environment

Plantwatch: a divided nation
Guardian Unlimited | 23 Feb 2011
Britain has been a divided nation this month - the north dogged by cold winds, the south largely mild and balmy. So it's small wonder that the early spring flowers are barely showing in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but in the southern half of the country spring is well under way – snowdrops, celandines, daffodils, crocuses and hazel catkins are coming into bloom and the leaf buds of elder trees starting to break open.

United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Weather Conditions

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