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Ranger with tusk
Ivory and tuna top wildlife talks
UN wildlife negotiations begin on banning the trade in bluefin tuna and permitting sales of ivory at a two-week summit in Doha.
In pictures: Saving Chad's elephants

Eugene Cernan on the Moon (Nasa) Apollo men decry Obama Moon plans
Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the US lunar programme is "catastrophic".

Scarlet tanager Climate linked to smaller birds
Songbirds on the US east coast are becoming smaller, a trend thought to be driven by climate changes.

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Saturn's rings (Nasa)
Beauty and power
What Saturn's rings tell us about the forces that formed the entire Solar System
Tokyo city lights (bbc) Powering up
Japan's home fuel-cell tech to take on Europe
Brown bear (Ursus arctos) In pictures
Learning from bears' love of telegraph poles
Richard Black Earth Watch
Will review of UN climate change body be unbiased?

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Aphalara itadori (Dick Shaw/Cabi) Hailing the arrival of alien predators
Camera trap picture of an adult brown bear in Greece In pictures: Bear power
Aboriginal whaling rights slipping

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Bonobos opt to share their food
'Case stronger' on climate change

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