The eradication of species
Biodiversity is not just an asset from which humans gain. We have complex social relations with all non-human life.
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George McGavin Q&A: “All species live on the knife-edge of survival”
The entomologist on lush prehistoric forests and inescapable doom.
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The Year of the Cat: feline fellowship and the meaning of life
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s memoir of adopting a kitten doubles as a study of anxiety, parenthood and purpose.
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Fantastic beasts and how to save them
Katherine Rundell’s new book is a treasury of extraordinary animals endangered by human negligence and greed.
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From the NS archive: The November garden
15 November 1913: Edith Nesbit looks out her window at late flowers in autumn.
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Why would anyone lobby on behalf of dangerous dogs?
On the one hand you have the right of five-year-olds not to be disfigured; on the other, the right of…
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The natural world is vanishing before it has even reached our eyes
From resentful crows to narwhal tusks, we understand only a fraction of the Earth’s beauty. And now we risk losing…
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Save the planet by saving the pandas
If the green movement wants to capture British hearts and minds, it should focus on animals, not abstract temperature rises.
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