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New tiny Dragon found in Indonesia!

Straight from the pages of mythology these little lizards are a mini replica of the fearsome dragons that many idolise. However this dragon cannot breathe fire, talk, impart magic or eat bits of humans...

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Beware the pet killing snails!

Snails are not only my least favourite gastropod, next to slugs, they are also my least favourite anything. Then I found out they are also carriers of the lung worm parasite called Angiostrongylus...

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Scott Rennie on the Badger Cull in Somerset

Hello Folks, Well its been a hectic week in the cull zone in Somerset! Things they assured you would not happen, have happened. Here’s a part of my own personal account!. SEP 2 Posted by Scott Rennie...

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How not to become food for Mosquitos

Mosquitos, there are certainly more of them than there are of us.  In fact there are around 3,500 species of mosquito. Not individual mosquitoes, just the different types of species. Some mosquitoes...

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Cats declawed

Cats have claws and with those claws they scratch things. The scratching of ones furniture and skin can be upsetting to a human, but cats don’t seem to mind as long as they have something to keep their...

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Frog cheeps and chirps

Most of us, when we think of frogs think of this noise. Click here This famous frog call  is often heard in films, but it’s a soundtrack that filmmakers have used for many different species and many...

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Nestlé and their Patent on Natural Resources.

So there is something streaming round the internet at the moment that suggests Nestlé is trying to take out a patent on the fennel flower (Nigella Sativa). Reading this got me understandably angry. How...

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Frogs are cute- hosted by Karen Magill

Today I did in a wildlife guest post for Karen Macgill.  It concerns a competition hosted by Froglife, who are working hard for the preservation of amphibians and reptiles....

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Calling all nature lovers!

Calling all nature lovers! © Janpietruszka | Dreamstime Stock Photos &Stock Free Images You may by now have noticed that I like frogs; to that end I have Donated a copy of The Adventures of the...

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Keep Ponies off the Menu!

A few years ago I made a documentary with my other half about ‪Dartmoor‬‪ Pony‬ Conservation. Dartmoor ponies have been in decline since they ceased to be used as work horses in the mines of Dartmoor....

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