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Could we bring back the Great Auk?
Many species that once bulked large in the British consciousness have vanished. But what if we could ‘de-extinct’ the flightless, penguin-like seabird?
Turtle doves and the myth of rewilding
In the latest success story for reintroducing species to the British countryside, turtle doves, reared in captivity and released at…
Bogs and fogs
In his poem ‘Eden Rock’, Charles Causley conjures up a dreamy memory of a childhood picnic ‘somewhere beyond Eden Rock’.…
