HAINAN Island, which I visited a few years ago, is a crowded place, writes Richard Collins

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Children as young as 13 are taking freely available drugs known as ‘legal highs’; The latest increase in third-level fees will see the cost of studying away from home top 11k; Jamil the rhino will today be unveiled as the newest attraction at Fota. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

She’s helped steer a naval vessel through storms and mountainous seas and has co-ordinated daring boarding missions with total focus and nerves of steel.

THE arrival of any new species of animal or plant in this country is almost invariably greeted with alarm by the authorities.

Permission has been granted for a scheme of over 200 new homes near Castleknock in Dublin 15.

The baby boom continues at Dublin Zoo as a second Asian elephant to be born in the last six weeks arrived on Tuesday.

Two cousins who have swum the length of the Shannon and cycled through every county in Ireland are on course to set an incredible triathlon endurance record.

FOTA Wildlife Park is famous for its cheetahs; hundreds of cubs have been born there.

A major citizen scientist project has been launched by the Irish Wildlife Trust to build a national picture of the distribution of native ladybirds.

Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork has confirmed it is playing a crucial role in preventing the extinction of one of the world’s most endangered animals.

Midleton man Mark O’Riordan tells Caroline Delaney about his life at a Congo chimp sanctuary.

The cheetah, the world’s fastest land animal, survived mass extinction during the last ice age 10,000 years ago.

Fota Wildlife Park will remain closed today as a result of extreme weather conditions in the Cork area.

IT WAS nice while it lasted.

AFTER a number of low-key and low-profile but significant viewings, the 500-acre Fota Island Resort finally gets its formal market launch this week.

The Irish Heritage Trust has unveiled the results of an almost €11m four-year restoration programme at historic Fota House.

WHAT do making rockets and robots, gaming, 3D, animation, teddy hacking, astronauts — even a portable planetarium and Mega Molecules — have in common? Discovery 2011.

A WILDLIFE park will be swinging to a different beat this jazz weekend after the birth of its very own jungle VIP.

FIVE newborns were getting down to some serious monkey business yesterday as the baby boom at Fota Wildlife Park continued.

Fota Wildlife Park has today announced its latest arrival, a European Bison calf named Linde.

Eurest has won a €5m contract to provide the catering services at Fota Wildlife Park in east Cork.

Cork All-Ireland winning hurling captain Ben O'Connor has launched Fota Wildlife Park's new children's book, "A Hare at Fota" today.

Tommy Barker

A WILDLIFE park was celebrating a little monkey business yesterday with the arrival of two babies who will bolster a species considered to be one of the most endangered in the world.