A new wetland bird habitat which the public can visit is to open near Bristol. Hallen Marsh, near Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston, includes four kilometres of new public footpaths. It is part of flood defence works led by the Avonmouth and Severnside Enterprise Area (ASEA), which will...
Thousands of extinct-in-the-wild snails bred in British zoos have been flown to their new French Polynesian home. Whipsnade Zoo’s invertebrate specialist Tyrone Capel has this week released 1,600 of the fingernail-sized snails onto the volcanic island of Moorea. Partula snails...
A woman is supporting aid efforts in Morocco after narrowly escaping the recent earthquake in the country. Rebecca Calvert, from Windsor, Berkshire, was staying in a small village in the Atlas Mountains when the disaster struck on 8 September, killing almost 3,000 people. The location was...
A major UK leak of the extremely potent greenhouse gas methane has been spotted from space for the first time. The leak – seen by satellite – occurred over a three-month period at a gas main operated by Wales and West Utilities. The amount leaked could have powered 7,500 homes...
Can you imagine three agitated, male chimpanzees escaping from a zoo and heading straight for a primary school? Well, that’s exactly what happened in one south Wales village. On 5 February 1992, the primates broke free from their enclosure at Penscynor Wildlife Park in Neath. Two of...
