animals

Beekeepers fear for livelihoods as anti-Zika mosquito toxin kills 2.5m bees

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  • ‘It kills everything’: conservationist warns over threat to other animals
  • Regulators: ‘clear and public health crisis’ allows use of Naled chemical

Global fish production approaching sustainable limit, UN warns

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Around 90% of the world’s stocks are now fully or overfished and production is set to increase further by 2025, according to report from UN’s food body

The sculpture controlled by bees: Wolfgang Buttress’s Hive

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Its 170,000 pieces of aluminium are a hive-like structure of latticework, controlled by the vibrations of honeybees in a hive at Kew that is connected to the sculpture

Leopards have lost 75% of their historical habitat

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New research shows the big cats’ global range has shrunk by a shocking amount over the last 250 years

Is it time to give up leather?

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Cows have long been farmed to fuel the fast food market. Now, by turning leather into a seasonal fashion, they are becoming part of fast fashion. Soon we will have to kill 430m every year. Lucy Siegle gets to grips with life without leather (well almost)