(Photo : Zoosnow on Wikimedia Commons)
These small apes have relationships that can mirror those of humans, in that couples do cheat, breakup, and even remarry. Relationships aren t easy, even for these monogamous animals. For the primate couples that do stay together, they groom each other and equally help raise their children.
Puffins
(Photo : ianpreston on Wikimedia Commons) Puffins usually breed with the same mate each year, notes wildlife expert Richard James on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds website. Paired-up puffins don t necessarily stay together year-round, though. According to James, puffins spend about six months at sea, and it is not known whether the breeding pairs stay together over the winter.
Hanson announced Ouse Fen nature reserve expansion Written by Global Cement staff
05 February 2021
UK: HeidelbergCement subsidiary Hanson has announced a planned 80ha expansion of its Ouse Fen nature reserve partnership project with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Cambridgeshire. The company says the additional restored land from its Needingworth quarry will increase the area of the reserve to 298ha.
Unit manager Hilton Law said, “The Ouse Fen reserve is an outstanding example of minerals extraction leading to habitat creation on a landscape scale and highlights the benefits that managing the land left behind from quarrying can make in shaping and improving habitats for wildlife. We are proud to support the RSPB, Cambridgeshire County Council and others involved in the project, which will make an invaluable contribution to achieving UK biodiversity targets and securing the future of important wildlif
“Common ground is just that – the soil we tread on that gently holds us together,” he said.
The conference was hosted by the new Shared Island Unit set up by the government to help maintain all-island relations post-Brexit.
Speakers, including scientists, regulators and environmental activists, said while there were strong links and shared projects between universities and environmental groups north and south, official policy was not always so closely aligned.
They raised concerns around the Brexit fall-out and what the implications may be for a Northern Ireland no longer bound by EU environmental directives or the biodiversity clauses in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.
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3:34 PM February 2, 2021
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3:35 PM February 2, 2021
Robert Arkenstall Primary School in Haddenham held an ‘at home nature day’ for pupils and families in lockdown.
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Pupils and families stuck indoors in lockdown enjoyed a ‘at home nature day’ linked with a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) event.
Robert Arkenstall Primary School in Haddenham near Ely hosted the one-off ‘break’ and tied it in with the RSPB’s ‘Big Garden Birdwatch 2021’.
Kate Bonney, headteacher, said: “It has been lovely to see so many of our children enjoying a nature focus this week.
One pupil s clever bird creation.