Animals
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Scotland has maintained a health culture of enjoying nature – and pitching your tent where you liked was part of this. Better education is the way forwardWild campers should be tamed, not banned
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Animal trafficking: the $23bn criminal industry policed by a toothless regulatorThe Cites convention finds itself confronting powerful networks, even though it has no detectives, no police powers and no firearms
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The crime family at the centre of Asia's animal trafficking networkBach brothers based in Vietnam and Thailand are responsible for smuggling thousands of tonnes of elephant ivory, rhino horn and other endangered species
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Revealed: the criminals making millions from illegal wildlife traffickingExclusive: Investigation uncovers the ringleaders profiting from $23bn annual trade in illicit animals after more than a decade of undercover surveillance
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Back from the dead: extinct wildlife as vintage posters – in picturesMatt Lindley’s series Unknown Tourism commemorates lost species with posters inspired by 30s to 50s air travel ads
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Panda cubs enjoy the sunshine – videoA group of panda cubs living in the Chengdu panda base in China, still unable to walk, learn to sit and climb trees
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Wildlife trade summit is a 'do or die' moment for endangered animalsConservationists urge countries to give imperilled species the highest level of protection at the global Cites summit opening on Saturday to prevent them becoming extinct in the wild
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The week in wildlife – in picturesA dozing brown bear, hungry badger and a very hairy caterpillar are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Norway's wolf cull pits sheep farmers against conservationistsNorway’s recent decision to destroy 70% of its tiny endangered population of wolves shocked conservationists worldwide and saw 35,000 sign a local petition. But in a region dominated by sheep farming support for the cull runs deep
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Prince William: African elephants could be gone in 10 years – videoThe Duke of Cambridge tells an event in London organised by the conservation charity Tusk, that he is not prepared to be part of a generation that lets the species disappear from the wild
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Beachgoers in south-west England warned to avoid portuguese man o'warMarine experts say jellyfish-like creatures that have washed up in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands can inflict a very painful and potentially fatal sting
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Prince William: African elephants could be gone from the wild by the time Charlotte turns 25Duke of Cambridge tells audience at a conservation charity event in London that he is not prepared to be part of a generation that lets the species disappear from the wild
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Panda falls from tree before being ambushed in Chinese reserve – videoA panda falls from a tree before having its sticks stolen at Wolong Giant Panda Nature reserve in Sichuan on Tuesday
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Miaow! Row over harm done by domestic cats sends fur flyingAuthors of US book Cat Wars at loggerheads with UK campaigners over call to ‘remove all free-ranging cats from the landscape’
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Country diary Shades of Tolkien in a Northumbrian mire