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Goats must go to save the Gal谩pagos tortoises
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Environment
How many species do we need?
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Give us the dough to crack whet genome
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Review: Let’s hear it for the cultivators
Books & Arts
Whaling ban stays in place – for now
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Trees help nature reclaim the slap heaps: In South Walkes, efforts to reclaim the black mountains of waste from coal mines have failed. A Bulgarian technique promises to do better
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Whalers win the numbers game: Whales can be hunted withoutrisking extinction, according to a formula adopted by the InternationalWhaling Commission. Next year, commercial whalers could put to sea in force
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Key nations defy whaling commission
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In much of the Third World, farming evolved to minimise the effects of crop disease and drought. These methods conserve genes better than Western techniques and can produce just as much food: Farming goes back to its roots
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Two weeks to save the planet: Do you need funds and workers to carry out field research? Or would you like to invest your money and your labour in a project that might do some good? Earthwatch may be the answer
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Life
A very cultured chimpanzee
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