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Baby eels

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Eel patrol: Tracking down poachers with the wildlife police

Fishing for the endangered European eel is allowed only under strict rules. Clare Wilson joins the environmental officers patrolling the banks of the UK’s River Severn

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A stuffed thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger

Life

Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion

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Flying foxes

Life

Flying foxes are facing extinction on islands across the world

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Stop killing lions for their bones to make bogus aphrodisiacs

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Stop killing lions for their bones to make bogus aphrodisiacs

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De-extinction dilemma: reviving dead species may doom the living

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De-extinction dilemma: reviving dead species may doom the living

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great auk

Life

Resurrecting nature: Extinct is not forever

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Dusty elephants, one apparently using trunk to cast earth over itself

Earth

Climate change is already battering hundreds of animal species

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A snow leopard

Life

Endangered snow leopards dine on livestock like goats and horses

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Close-up of a salamander

Life

Rare ‘baby dragons’ discovered in five new caves thanks to DNA

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A vaquita caught in a net

Life

World’s most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

The vaquita porpoise lives in the Gulf of California, Mexico, where illegal fishing with gill nets has slashed the population by a total of 90 per cent in the past five years

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Life

The great extermination: How New Zealand will end alien species

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Life

Goat plague wipes out 10 per cent of endangered antelopes

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Life

Yellow fever outbreak is killing off rare monkeys in Brazil

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Life

Majority of primate species may vanish in next 25 to 50 years

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