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First otter reaches Farne IslandsAn otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust says.
Beavers arrive for spring release
Four Norwegian beaver families arrive in the UK as part of an historic plan to reintroduce the mammals to Scotland.
Mammoth's genome pieced together
A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia.
Slow progress on ocean protection
Two year after pledging to protect 10% of the oceans, governments have protected less than 1%, a survey finds.
Sparrow numbers 'plummet by 68%'
The loss of green spaces in Britain has caused the number of house sparrows to drop sharply in the past 30 years.
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