🐝 The Leafcutter: No. 31

‍🌍 News‍

Mysterious Type D orca, sought after for years, found in Southern Ocean

BBC prioritises environment with new natural history programming

World's largest bee, missing for 38 years, found alive in Indonesia

Giant tortoise believed extinct for 100 years found in Galápagos

European farms could grow green and still be able to feed population

Washington governor to run on climate change

WWF accused of funding guards who torture and kill in poaching war

Bird extinctions 'driven' by global food trade

...and Canadian wolves are being airdropped into Michigan for a special mission

🦍 Conservation Guide News‍

We are hosting a conservation event in London at the Salesforce Tower on 3rd April - stay tuned for more details!

I'm also trying to make the Leafcutter shorter and more focused so that I can continue to send it to you weekly. Let us know your feedback.

👀 Media‍‍

This macrophotographer

What's 16,000 times louder than an airhorn?

Mating dance of the day; the hooded grebe.

Opossum shrimp eyes are small and transparent enough that you can see the neural pathways.

Hi, bye

Did you know that sometimes bees sleep in flowers?

‍🦑 Learn Something‍

Pay attention to the growing wave of climate change lawsuits

Parking is too cheap

New ways of talking about the living world and the threats it faces

How eavesdropping on elephants is keeping them safe

In the future, jellyfish slime may be the solution to microplastic pollution

📋 Get Involved

UK government: Ban all new oil drilling now

UK government: Establish a dedicated Select Committee on Climate Change

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