The RSPB warns that wildlife such as skylarks and stone-curlews could be under threat due to large areas of set-aside farmland going under the plough this winter. Last year the RSPB predicted that high prices for wheat, caused in part by the worrying government incentives to grow biofuels, would prove impossible for farmers to ignore, […]
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Rainforest destruction leaves species seeing red
Rainforest is being logged on one of the world’s wildlife hotspots more quickly than almost anywhere else in South-East Asia, satellite images have shown. Before and after pictures of New Britain, which is part of Papua New Guinea, show that 12 per cent of forest including 20 per cent of lowland forest was cleared between […]