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Gorilla

Life

Meet Kuimba, the French-born gorilla released into Gabon's rainforest

Kuimba, a western lowland gorilla, adapts to her island home in Gabon after she was flown from a French zoo in a new project to save the endangered subspecies

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Vaquita

Life

There may be just 19 endangered vaquita porpoises left in the world

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Great white shark

Life

The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth's mass extinctions

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beaver

Life

Beavers, nature’s master engineers, may run wild in Wales again

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eagle

Life

Meet the white-tailed eagles making a comeback in the UK

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kakapo

Life

Baby boom for the kakapo, New Zealand’s critically endangered parrot

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Secretive new frog species from ancient lineage discovered in India

Life

Secretive new frog species from ancient lineage discovered in India

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Museum specimens in drawers

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Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species

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animal collection

Life

Is the idea of species now more trouble than it is worth?

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Japanese whalers hauling a minke whale to the ship in the Southern Ocean

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Japan’s plan to resume commercial whaling could actually help whales

Japan’s move is bad news for whales within its waters, but spells the end of high seas whaling, says Matthew Collis

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Life

Endangered relative of the hedgehog may be thriving in Vietnam

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Life

Wild populations of animals have crashed by 60 per cent

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Life

Why alligators, wolves and mountain lions are turning up in odd places

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Earth

Special report: The new megaprojects changing the face of our planet

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