THERE’S a ‘bring back the lynx’ lobby in Britain. Deer numbers in parts of England and Scotland have risen so much that their habitat is being seriously degraded. Excessive grazing is threatening native flora and there’s a new kid on the block; over 40,000 alien muntjac deer are destroying farmers’ crops.

STAY OF EXECUTION

A bird which earned a last minute reprieve after supermarket chain Tesco’s plans to shoot it caused a Twitter backlash in Britain has been caught and released.

Supermarket chain Tesco has been forced to rethink a plan to hire a sniper to shoot a protected bird which has been flying around one of its stores.

The Badger Trust is back in court today with a new legal challenge over the British Government’s badger cull policy.

A swarm of Asian predatory wasps is set to invade Britain according to media reports.

A pilot badger cull in the UK is set to be extended by up to three weeks because fewer animals were killed than had been hoped.

A well-preserved historic crocodile skull has been declared a new species.

THERE’S no evidence that beavers were ever in Ireland.

A RARE butterfly, numbers of which have declined by 80% in the past century, has managed to beat the odds by rising from the ashes after a devastating fire on one of the few heathlands where it is found, Natural England has said.

DOZENS of common bird species have declined across Europe over the past quarter of a century, with some pushed to the brink of extinction in the continent, a report warned yesterday.

Environmental campaigners today demanded major changes to European farming to benefit wildlife and rural communities.

THE skull of a crocodile last seen roaming the earth alongside dinosaurs was unearthed by a fossil-hunter along the British coastline.