Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

Here comes trouble: the return of the wild boar to Britain

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As the animals have re-emerged, our attitude to them has grown increasingly capricious. People now living cheek by jowl with these 150kg barrels of muscle and hair tell their stories


South Downs gypsum mining unearths fortune in heart of 1066 country

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Britain’s largest deposit of gypsum goes largely unnoticed in country’s newest national park


The freshwater fish fight

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Millions of anglers catch fish only to put them straight back again. Isn’t it time we rediscovered the culinary potential of freshwater species?


‘Crown jewels’ of Britain’s landscape could be sold off

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Key nature reserves could be run by big business
Conservationists split over private sector takeover