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New butterfly campaign takes off
Campaigners from Butterfly Conservation Scotland are launching a push to make the insects one of Scotland's main tourist attractions.
Deer cull plan under attack from keepers
Plans leading to a drastic reduction in deer numbers on a famous Strathspey estate, which will cost the taxpayer nearly £500,000, have been condemned by the Scottish Gamekeepers' Assocation.
New protest at hedgehog shootings
A new wave of protest has begun against the shooting of hedgehogs in North Uist to save the eggs of rare wading birds.
Agnes has bats in her Aberdeen gable-end
Pensioner Agnes Flett has been entertaining some unwelcome visitors in her Aberdeen home this summer - bats.
Two sides to lack of buzz about Ulster
Plummeting wasp numbers this year may be good news for many of us, but it's bad for gardeners and the environment, according to the Ulster Wildlife Trust.
Farmers at war with badgers
Hundreds of badgers are being killed in every corner of the West in a campaign of illegal attacks by farmers, campaigners claimed yesterday.
Red Squirrel Week
Red Squirrel Week is running from September 10-18 2005 to highlight the plight of red squirrels.

The harlequin ladybird is the most invasive ladybird on Earth.
Now it's in Britain.
Help monitor its spread here
 

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Plants
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Alien threat to our water ways
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction - an alien plant which spreads like wildfire and can take over an entire waterway in weeks.
Residents are unhappy over hedge
A council has been criticised for its failure to act over damage to a hedge.
Poplar solution
Over the last 30 years intensive fruit and vegetable farming at Lower Lulham in Herefordshire has largely given way to tree plantations as the farming partnership of H A Snell & Sons has diversified into The Poplar Tree Company.
Lime trees make life misery - home owner
A row has been sparked in a Cambridgeshire village after a man who called for a row of trees to be chopped down hit out at nearby neighbours.
Irish Sea coral
Marine
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Survey finds coral reefs and U-boats off our coast
Sunken German U-boats from the first and second world wars, a 70-mile coral reef and a possible fuel source for the future are just some of the underwater treasures discovered in the world's largest marine survey, currently being undertaken off the coast of Ireland.
Boy struck by giant tropical fish
A four-year-old boy fishing off the west Wales coast with his parents was knocked over by a metre-long tropical fish which leaped aboard their boat.
Speed limits introduced to protect whales and dolphins
The Department of the Marine has drawn up new sea traffic rules for skippers of boats to protect the unprecedented number of whales and dolphins swimming in Irish waters.
Fishing in troubled waters
The harbour porpoise has plied the North Sea in search of fish for thousands of years.
Feminists force turtle campaign back into its shell
An advertising campaign to help save endangered sea turtles in Mexico has run aground on opposition from feminists who claim it panders to machismo.
Birds
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Nature notes
At the edge of lakes, the phragmites reeds now have silky purple flowerheads that hang to one side and weigh the stems down.
Partridges join flight of fancy at farm haven
A game bird whose population was once in decline is now on the up after a farm took the species under its wing.
Our friends in high places
They’ve been around for much longer, but they have swiftly learnt to cohabit with us vertically challenged humans.
National/Europe
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Ecopsychology: The force of nature
We know exercise is good for us. Now a study shows that any activity performed outside in a green space can be the best preventitive medicine.
Nature
Exploring the countryside and finding out more about nature would seem the opposite of sitting in front of a computer screen.

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Countryside management and nature conservation
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Scotland
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Butterflies have had enough of Scots sun
It is a rare downside of Scotland becoming a warmer place: butterflies that once thrived on our normally inclement weather now appear to be on the search for colder climes.
Poisoned salmon under scrutiny
An investigation has been launched after more than 7,000 salmon were found dead on the banks of a popular fishing spot from being poisoned.
Squirrel blocks obstacle course
An obstacle course for children in Aberdeenshire has hit a small but intractable obstacle of its own . . . a lone red squirrel.
Scotlands Newest NNR - Corrie Fee
Scottish Natural Heritage today declared Corrie Fee in Angus as Scotland’s latest National Nature Reserve (NNR).
Fears for future of river's 'mad mile'
It has been dubbed Scotland's "Mad Mile" - one of the most exhilarating and challenging stretches of white water on any of the country's rivers.
SNH to embark on Inverness recruitment drive
Scottish Natural Heritage is to embark on a recruitment drive in Inverness from September, to promote job opportunities at the organisation's new head office, currently being built in the city.
Ireland
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Strangford Lough is a natural!
Strangford Lough should be officially designated one of the jewels in Northern Ireland's tourism crown, a politician from the area said today.
Badger vaccine planned against cattle TB
Badgers which have been found to spread bovine TB to cattle are to be given vaccine against the disease rather than being slaughtered.
Residents win reprieve for trees
Furious Belfast residents who awoke to find the mature wood on their doorsteps being bulldozed have won a stay of execution for the remaining trees.
High powered meeting on bird flu threat
Ulster Farmers Union chiefs will meet senior government vets this week to discuss the threat of avian flu to the province.
England
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Farmer fined for river waste leak
A Somerset farmer has been fined £1,000 after an effluent sewage leak at a river killed more than 100 fish.
'Floods will return if rivers not cleared'
Fierce floods will hit Cambridgeshire this autumn unless action is taken to clear our rivers.
Reward for green farmers
Hard-hit farmers in the News area are set to get a welcome financial boost from the government’s new Environmental Stewardship Scheme (ESS).
Wales
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Council concerned
The Welsh Consumer Council has raised concerns about GM and is calling for the long-term impact of GM crops on the environment to be fully addressed before any decision is made about their commercialisation in the UK.
Airbus delight at plans for Dee dredging
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has welcomed news of a compromise over dredging the Dee estuary.
Fans and foes put different spin on new windfarm
It was billed by the wind power industry as a celebration of British renewable energy: the offer of a guided bank holiday tour round some of the larger windfarms now sprouting from Britain's wild and boggy uplands.
Climate
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Boost to CO2 mass extinction idea
A computer simulation of the Earth's climate 250 million years ago suggests that global warming triggered the so-called "great dying".
Help produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century, using your computer -
here
Global
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India moves on river plan, critics warn of disaster
Two key states have agreed to start the first stage of a $200 billion plan to link India's rivers, a scheme critics condemn as a recipe for ecological disaster and violence from those it will force from their homes.
Mating can be fatal for endangered toads
It's a tough life being a leopard toad in the Cape Peninsula. It's no wonder the little creatures have become endangered.
Buffalo relocated to uMkhuze reserve
Buffalo, one of Africa's "Big Five", have returned to uMkhuze Game Reserve in northern Zululand after an absence of more than 75 years.
Millions of idled acres getting another look
Agriculture, wildlife and conservation groups expect a conference next week in St. Louis to be where the U.S. Department of Agriculture lays out its plan for dealing with vast amounts of land contracts in the Conservation Reserve Program.
The World Land Trust is a conservation charity that has helped purchase and protect over 300,000 acres of rainforest and other threatened wildlife habitats worldwide. You can help us save even more - here
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