Richard Collins: Not quite zebras crossing, but animals are taking to city life
Richard Collins: "The fox, with bounties on its head, had been persecuted for centuries. It thrives now in city parks and suburbs." Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid — Isaiah.
The peregrine was "more fortunate than the eagles", wrote Richard Ussher and Robert Warren in 1900: "The bird fairly holds its own wherever cliffs afford it suitable haunts."
![<p> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that “an ecosystem is collapsed when it is virtually certain that its defining biotic [living] or abiotic [non-living] features are lost from all occurrences, and the characteristic native biota are no longer sustained”.</p> <p> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that “an ecosystem is collapsed when it is virtually certain that its defining biotic [living] or abiotic [non-living] features are lost from all occurrences, and the characteristic native biota are no longer sustained”.</p>](/cms_media/module_img/9930/4965053_12_augmentedSearch_iStock-1405109268.jpg)