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RSPB shares results as Britons encouraged to spend an hour counting birds in annual Big Garden Birdwatch

Washington (AFP) - More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem.

Last week, the world met “Toadzilla”, a cane toad the size of a football and six times larger than average. The rangers who found her – female toads are bigger than male – were stunned. Weighing in at 2.7 kilograms, Toadzilla may be the largest cane toad ever recorded.

Johannesburg (AFP) - South Africa said Thursday that it had reached a deal to transfer more than 100 cheetahs to India as part of an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted cats in the south Asian country.

The middle of January marked the halfway point in meteorological winter, which comes to an end in just five weeks

Researchers believe this breakthrough could take medical treatments a step closer to regeneration

The sleek and tenacious Sierra Nevada red fox — once thought to have disappeared from the mountain range that bears its name — has been detected near the eastern boundary of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks.

One of the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo is in fact a high-ranking member of the Norwegian King's Guard, and has even been knighted in a ceremony approved by the King of Norway.

A new study offers insight into how to better protect biodiversity

Biologists and animal rights activists have called for a temporary halt to fishing off the French Atlantic coast as hundreds of fatally injured dolphins wash up on the nation's beaches.

When William the Conqueror surveyed his new kingdom in 1086, from lowland to upland, Britain was covered with trees. In low-lying Yorkshire, the East Anglian Fens and the Somerset Levels, wet woods of tall white willows and alders lined great rivers. On windswept highlands in the Pennines, north Yorkshire and…