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Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every hectare of active mine site.

A study led by Dr Sayam Chowdhury of the Department of Zoology's Conservation Science Group , draws on more than 14 years of shorebird monitoring in Bangladesh, combined with satellite tracking across Asia, to offer important insights into the decline of migratory shorebird species.

Hedgehogs are under threat in this country. Government surveys suggest their numbers have fallen by up to 75% in rural areas since the turn of the century, and sightings of them in our gardens are rare. But now these much-loved animals are getting help from an unlikely new ally: AI.

Achieving an international conservation target to protect almost a third of the world’s land and sea in the next four years could directly affect the lives of almost half the people on the planet, finds a new report.