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Birds of prey and vultures (raptors) play a vital role in ecosystems, both as top predators and key scavengers.

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The northern white rhinoceros. The passenger pigeon. The Javan tiger. The golden toad. The Pinta Island tortoise. These are just some of the dozens of land-based vertebrate species that have gone extinct over the past century. Many more will likely follow them into oblivion soon, a team of scientists warns in a new study which makes for sobering reading.

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Today, 11 African canids, from excitable African painted wolves and shrewd jackals to the tiny fox species, hunt the continent’s desert, alpine grassland, savanna and woodland.

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The basics of bongos

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In 2008, miners off the coast of Namibia stumbled upon buried treasure: a sunken Portuguese ship known as the Bom Jesus, which went missing on its way to India in 1533.

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Legality is often treated as a proxy for control. If a trade is authorised, documented, and formally regulated, it is assumed to be governed. Permits signal oversight, certificates suggest traceability, and compliance appears, at least superficially, verifiable.