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A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined
The world’s nations have set up 200,000 protected areas in which nature is supposed to flourish, but in many cases the protection is pretty much theoretical
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Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon
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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out
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The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides
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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too
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Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant’s cries for help
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A deadly predator could save the UK’s threatened red squirrels
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People are slaughtering orangutans and wiping them out
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Shark-free world? That’s a wish that would come back to bite us
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Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now
The growing use in Europe of trawl nets that stun fish with electricity has divided opinion. It should be scaled back and properly researched, says Lesley Evans Ogden
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Planet and people: new books for Anthropocene times
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Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars
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‘Super-spreader’ coral could restore trashed Great Barrier Reef
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If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster
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