Ten biodiversity projects to help endangered species in the UK have been given grants worth two million pounds generated from landfill taxes. Outnumbered star, Daniel Roche came face to face with a toad at Trent Park in Cockfosters, London when funding group, WREN, announced who will receive the money.
Can you think of life-saving names for ten British species that are at risk of becoming extinct? Up to now these four beetles, two stalked jellyfish, two lichens, a bee and a shrimp-like animal have been known only by obscure scientific names but now’s your chance to make them memorable.
If you spot a brightly-coloured elephant lurking on a street corner in London, don’t be alarmed. Virtually overnight the capital has become an urban jungle populated with 250 elaborately decorated life-size baby elephants.
Today the Royal Mail unveils ten new stamps featuring British mammals under threat. The species chosen range from marine giants – the humpback whale and sperm whale – to delicate dormice and hibernating hedgehogs.
Our actions have caused nearly 500 species of plants, animals and fungi to disappear from England, most in the last 200 years. These losses include nearly a quarter of our native butterflies and amphibians, 15 per cent of dolphins and whales and 12 per cent of land mammals.
