The Brown Argus butterfly Aricia agestis has expanded northwards in Britain during the last 30 years. It is thought that the recent expansion of the species is due to the increasing summer temperatures caused by global warming.
Research carried out by scientists in the UK and Spain reveals that by moving into new areas, the Brown [...]
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Clutching the school guinea-pig or charting the growth of tadpoles in a jar has, for generations, been many children’s first encounter with the natural world.
But the practice of keeping animals in school is endangered and may even become extinct if RSPCA guidance is enforced.
Allowing small children, and even smaller creatures, to [...]
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The latest “ethical” food in England is squirrel. That’s right, those fuzzy-tailed little rodents that scurry about your yard. Of course, Southerners have always eaten squirrels. It was a part of our food pyramid, and we didn’t give it up until we could afford hamburger.
Rural Southern families always have depended on the family sharpshooter [...]
A squirrel caused a fire at a flat in Northampton by chewing through electric cables in the roof of the property.
Two fire crews were called to the first-floor flat in Woolbeck Close, Kingsthorpe, on Monday night.
The roof was severely damaged by fire and there was light smoke damage to the flat. [...]
The mission was to get Simba al-Tikriti out of Iraq and to a new life in Britain.
First, a roadside bomb nearly wiped out the taxi heading to the border with Kuwait. The next step was to hide under tarps in the back of a truck. More hardship awaited: six months caged by authorities in England.
But [...]
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Fashion for pets is all the rage in the U.S. and in England, especially amongst celebrities. Jari, a British jewelry company has joined the trend and now offers a collection of specially designed matching jewels for pets and their owners.
Jari is the only company in the UK that designs jewelry for pets using [...]
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A ruling that the Government was failing in its legal duty to ensure the suffering of animals used in laboratory experiments was kept to a minimum has been overturned.
Three judges at the Court of Appeal said a High Court judge’s finding that a Government adviser was “clearly wrong” in a conclusion over the level of [...]
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Britain’s dragonflies, which date back to the dinosaurs but are increasingly threatened by habitat destruction, pollution and climate change, are to be the subject of a major national survey.
The five-year project, to be launched on Thursday, will result in a new atlas of the 39 species of dragonfly and damselfly that breed in [...]
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Thousands of mountain hares are being illegally snared in Scotland as part of control measures, it is being claimed.
A new report shows that 24,529 animals were killed during 2006-7 over 90 estates, with 79 per cent being shot and 21 per cent (5,078 hares) snared for sport, tick control or to protect forestry.
But it [...]
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Frustrated and exhausted travellers at Heathrow have been complaining recently of being treated like animals, caged in the terminal with little to drink and taunted by snarling ground staff.
Little wonder then that Frankfurt airport, the main European competitor to Heathrow, has decided to make a point by treating its animals in transit [...]
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