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8 April 2002 |
The dolphins were seen tossing the two-year-old harbour porpoise "aggressively" into the air during the attack |
Dolphins' attack on young porpoise shocks boat trippers |
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Anger over prince's role in deer cull |
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6 April 2002 |
... recent sightings suggest that there are still three adults and two young boars on the loose |
Wild boar hunted as sheep killed |
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4 April 2002 |
... one of the engineers working at the site, who had been an avid frog collector in his childhood, alerted experts after correctly recognising the protected breed |
Work at Stansted halted for rare newts |
| "... not many people may appreciate that such things as "motherly love" extend to invertebrates" |
Earwigs could teach lessons in love |
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30 March 2002 |
"It was a very complex and difficult operation with three to four people at the site for four months" |
Winter holiday for herps |
| "I would appeal to anyone who sees the frogs being tortured to contact the police immediately" |
Easter plea to public to stop frog torture |
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29 March 2002 |
They'll be tagged, allowing their movements to be tracked by satellite |
Beavers to make first English appearance since 14th Century |
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27 March 2002 |
As well as the the city’s urban foxes, urban mink have now made an appearance |
Urban mink makes fur fly at farm |
| An exciting new website ... has been launched about the mammal, amphibian and reptile species found in Northern Ireland |
Northern Ireland's mammals, amphibians & reptiles |
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26 March 2002 |
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Politicians and landowners unite to block the beaver's return |
| "I was delighted and amazed by news of the sighting" |
Rare orca sighting at Strumble |
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| The 39 whales beached at Aughacasla Strand |
Whales survive beaching on Kerry strand |
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25 March 2002 |
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Gloucestershire tunnels to prevent otter road death rise |
| A Dorset Wildlife Trust survey has revealed that 61 per cent of the 36 sites resurveyed after a five-year interval have shown positive signs of the population having doubled |
Dorset voles are bouncing back |
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23 March 2002 |
"Northern Ireland is completely infested, and there is a concentration in central and western Scotland, with some occurrence in the north-west of England" |
Attack of the killer worms |
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22 March 2002 |
"It's incredible that the otter didn't suffer any serious injuries" |
Otter's miraculous recovery after accident |
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21 March 2002 |
All the bird-food we put out is encased in squirrel-proof feeders |
Facing up to tricky problem of the grey squirrel invasion |
| The Highways Agency is helping the beetle to fight back in a tiny corner of Cheshire |
Beetles given new lease of pondlife |
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15 March 2002 |
"The dolphins panic and this
shuts off their airholes and they can spend between 15 and 20 minutes
trying to fight their way out of the nets"
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Dolphins face extinction, MPs told |
| "The bridge will be strung between the equivalent of two telegraph poles to link groups of trees" |
Bridge bid to rescue rodents |
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14 March 2002 |
"... there will come a time when
it will either be the health of the river's salmon stocks or a handful
of seals out of tens of thousands, and I will have to shoot them"
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Jackets off in war against town seals |
| "A transgenic system is needed to test the causal involvement of genes" |
Butterfly wings aid study of morphological evolution |
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13 March 2002 |
"The whole pond has been so full of frogs you can barely see the water" |
Family besieged by frogs chorus |
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10 March 2002 |
The animal's head had been split |
Police in hunt for suspected badger-baiters |
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Watch the roads for frogs and toads |
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| ... the unseasonably warm weather has prompted frogs to move into people's gardens to breed |
No need to panic over frog influx! |
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| "We simply don't agree on what needs to be done. That's really the bottom line" |
Rare mice set to 'disappear' |
