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  • A close-up photo taken from below of a hammerhead shark with a scalloped edge to the wide front of its head

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?

  • Flower margins around the crops are home to ladybirds, which feed on the aphids.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Ladybirds and wasps are the unsung heroes of the farm

  • A red handfish among coral

    Blue mushrooms, shy trees and glowing seas: Beaker Street science photography prize – in pictures

    Gallery15
  • Gannets with pale yellow heads perch on dark, streaked rock ledges at Bass Rock colony in Scotland

    Call to phase out ‘inhumane’ guga hunt by working with Hebridean islanders

  • water and fish flowing out of pipe into lake

    Arizona lake closes indefinitely to visitors after all of its fish die

  • A hand reaches out to pick up a snail from a line of snails.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Giving guitarfish a chance: one man’s mission to persuade fishers to farm giant snails instead

  • Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds

  • Japanese city shuts down nearly 100 schools after unprecedented bear sighting

  • Country diary
    Country diary 1951: A drowsy heat haze hangs over the fells

  • a female dwarf spiny crayfish

    The fight to save Australia’s ‘incredibly captivating’ endangered spiny crayfish

    Global heating is destroying creeks the crayfish call home. They’re the canary in the coalmine for other species living in the delicate ecosystems
  • Tree saplings at Stobo Hope commercial forest

    Tax-break trees: how woodland became a store of wealth for the rich

    Attempt to turn a stretch of the English-Scottish border into a commercial forest exposes threat to habitats from wealthy investors
  • A grayling with scaled body and prominent dorsal fin swims underwater with sunlight streaming from above

    Fisher with a mission: first woman to chair Grayling Society wants to protect ‘lady of the stream’

    Marnie Lovejoy hopes to inspire other women to fish, protect England’s rivers and lift up the ‘beautiful’ grayling
  • The Haybob 300 with the service hole in the cap used by the blue tits.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A plough, a haybale – who would live in a house like this?

    Hungerford, Berkshire: In a nearby farm, ever-resourceful birds and bees are getting creative with where they build their nests
  • Aerial shot of the excavator digging the pond

    How the ‘Picasso of ponds’ went from shaping golf courses to making freshwater homes for wildlife

    Shaun Hancox has created scores of ponds for rewilding projects across Britain – and he says there’s a lot more to it than digging a hole
  • White-tailed sea eagle. with tracker just visible on back

    The Saturday read
    Predator or prey? The confounding case of the missing sea eagle

    The UK’s biggest bird of prey has been compared to a flying barn door. So how can one fitted with a satellite tracker disappear near a hunting estate?
  • Three black lemurs with bright blue eyes peer out from a circular wooden opening

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife: a lazy sea lion, baby ospreys and rare lemur quads

    Gallery19
  • A painted lady butterfly on a purple buddleia

    Get set for a painted lady summer: big year for orange butterflies in Britain

  • A bear walks on the premises of an office in Fukushima, Japan

    ‘Extremely intelligent’ Japanese bear that attacked four people still at large, police say

  • A tawny owlet in a beech tree.

    Country diary
    Country diary: The ‘queen of trees’ is holding a secret

  • Three deer walking across a lot of gravel.

    Mule deer already using incomplete $20m wildlife bridge in California

    Within the last few days, a camera trap caught images of three mule deer using structure for the first time
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