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- Man-made chemicals pollute deep-sea squids
A new study has turned up alarming evidence of how man-made contaminants are being found in deep-sea squids and octopods, food for deep-diving whales. The report has found chemical contaminants in nine species of cephalopods, a class of organisms that includes octopods, squids, cuttlefishes and nautiluses.
Date posted: 16 Jun 2008
- Colossal squid's big eye revealed.
The huge eye of the world's largest squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) has been revealed by scientists dissecting a rare, intact half-tonne specimen in New Zealand.
Date posted: 13 May 2008
- Buglife protesters stamp on Royal Mail’s green credentials
As Royal Mail flaunted its green credentials with a new set of stamps featuring endangered insects yesterday, a conservation charity offered up a similar set highlighting the plight of insects that it says are threatened by one of the postal service’s developments.
Date posted: 17 Apr 2008
- The Forest School will host the British Naturalists' Association Annual Conference 2008 again this year in Epping Forest, Snaresbrook on 10th May 2008.
TV Naturalist Presenter and wildlife cameraman, Simon King, will be this year’s recipient of the BNA’s prestigious Peter Scott Memorial Award
Date posted: 28 Mar 2008
- Roman Snails (Helix pomatia) have, at last, been added to Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
From 6th April 2008 wild caught Roman Snails Helix pomatia will be protected from intentional taking, injury or killing, as well as possession and sale.
Date posted: 15 Mar 2008
- Buglife wildlife case update
The first legal test of recent wildlife protection laws ended in bitter disappointment on Friday, 22nd February.
Date posted: 25 Feb 2008
- Bugs have their day in court
This coming Friday 22 February, Buglife will be going to the High Court in London to try to stop the destruction of West Thurrock Marshes.
Date posted: 21 Feb 2008
- BT Young Scientist of the Year 2008
The runner-up individual project went to Henry Glass (16), a transition-year student from Clongowes Wood College, Co Kildare, with a project entitled “The detection and locating of food by the slug Limax pseudoflavus”.
Date posted: 27 Jan 2008
- Radio 4 programme – "Why do the British love wildlife?"
Radio 4, 11.00 am. on January 8th. 2008. Francesco Da Mosto leaves his native Italy to explore the apparent special relationship between the British and the natural world. From buzzards to hedgehogs or dormice to snails, we seem to love them all, but why? Francesco discovers that the answer seems to lie in the 19th century.
Includes parts of an interview with Professor Robert Cameron, speaking for the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Date posted: 16 Dec 2007
- UNITAS 2007 – Poster prize awarded.
The prize sponsored by the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, for the best student poster on a conservation / biodiversity theme was awarded to Joaquim Reis, a PhD student at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, for his poster (presented jointly with Rafael Araujo from Spain).
Date posted: 04 Nov 2007
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