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​​Watch: a new short film called 'The fox and the allotment'

​In the heart of Edinburgh, a fox family has found a quiet sanctuary in a beautiful allotment. Living in harmony with the close-knit allotment community, these foxes live a carefree wild city life.​​

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​Win! 3 x pairs of stylish caps and t-shirts to be won from SWAROVSKI OPTIK

​Wildlife24/7 has 3 x pairs of SWAROVSKI OPTIK caps and luxury t-shirts to give away to our community of wildlife watchers. 

The new gear collection from the Austrian optical pioneers will make a stylish companion while you are out birding over the summer months, as well as in your daily routine and during your leisure time.​​

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Wildlife art: Louise Miller creates limited edition prints to help lemurs ​

​Whilst most of us will recognise Madagascar’s famous ring tailed lemurs, it’s one of the island’s lesser known species that is the subject for this limited edition print by famous artist, Louise Miller.​​

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Challenges: 30 Days Wild to return this June

​TV stars and wildlife superfans are calling on the nation to enjoy the benefits of daily contact with nature this June by taking part in the UK’s most popular annual nature challenge, 30 Days Wild, from The Wildlife Trusts.​​

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In your garden: Did you get a lockdown frog in your pond?

​Garden ponds are likely to be a very important resource for Common Frogs, providing them with somewhere to lay their spawn and for their tadpoles to develop into the next generation.​​

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Volunteers: wanted for innovative Scottish mountain hare survey

​Volunteers are wanted for the first on-the-ground national survey to shed light on distribution and numbers of Scottish mountain hares.​​

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Tech: 'Smart' nest box to launch kickstarter campaign

​An innovative ‘smart’ nest box that sends notifications, records footage and live streams to social media is about to be launched on the Kickstarter platform.​​

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Learning: New online tool opens up the World of bats and small mammals

A new online tool, just launched by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), opens up the previously hidden world of bats, bush-crickets, and small mammals.​​

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New gear: SWAROVSKI OPTIK release fresh CL compact binoculars for those looking to travel light

SWAROVSKI OPTIK launched their first compact binoculars way back in 1989, roughly the same time as Steven Spielberg was finishing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (yes - we feel old too.) They have since become some of the company’s most popular products and evolved into the ideal companions for a wide range of activities. Now SWAROVSKI OPTIK has given the popular CL Pocket a whole new look.

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Digiscoping and phonescoping: learn how to do it...

Many of you will have invested in new equipment to enjoy your existing or maybe, new, hobby of wildlife watching and will be thinking what to do when it comes to things like Digiscoping or Phonescoping for example. Thus, making sure you are recording memories of all the amazing sights and sounds you are witnessing. Here are a few pointers...

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New gear: SWAROVSKI OPTIK launches their new accessories collection 

SWAROVSKI OPTIK have launched a diverse accessory range to compliment their leading long-range optics. The GEAR collection boasts products which include well-designed backpacks, gloves, beanies, flasks and other accessories - ideal for wildlife watching in the cold months ahead. ​

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Funding: The Wildlife Trusts are to receive nearly £2m to restore land for nature and tackle climate change

Beavers, birds and butterflies are to benefit from almost £2 million of Postcode Lottery funding meaning The Wildlife Trusts across England, Scotland and Wales will be able to harness the power of nature to fight climate change.

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Photography: Chris Fallows speaks to Wildlife24/7 about his love of the ocean and white sharks

Renowned Fine Art Wildlife Photographer and friend of Wildlife24/7 Chris Fallows' magnificent images of Great White Sharks have been leaving audiences open-mouthed recently.

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New gear: SWAROVSKI OPTIK announces largest objective module ever made 

SWAROVSKI OPTIK has unveiled its new brand new 115-mm objective module, making it the largest of its kind for wildlife watching.​

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Watch: new film from Sir David Attenborough raises awareness of wildlife decline

Sir David Attenborough has made a short film to provide answers to the State of Nature partnership’s latest warnings of continued, devastating wildlife declines in the UK.

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Recovery: one of Britain's rarest mammals returns to Forest of Dean

Once a familiar feature of the woodlands in England, the pine marten stood on the brink of extinction – until now; following the successful release of 18 pine mine martens into the Forest of Dean.

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Warnings: UK government considering badger cull in new areas

The government is due to announce a new round of badger culls in England and is considering new cull areas where they have been paying for successful badger vaccination programmes. ​

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Conservation: Swifts are in need of our help as numbers halve in just 20 years

Admittedly this isn’t usually the time of year we think about swifts. Right now they’ll be thousands of miles away, south of the Sahara, zipping through the African skies. But right now, they also need our help. ​

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​Funding: major project to safeguard Orkney’s internationally important native wildlife wins National Lottery support

An ambitious project to safeguard Orkney’s world-renowned and internationally important native wildlife has been given the go ahead after receiving support from the National Lottery and the EU’s LIFE programme.​

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Rarity: endangered beetle hides out at WWT Welney

The Tansy beetle was thought to exist at just two sites in the UK, but has now been recorded for the first time in Norfolk, at the Welney Wetland Centre. 

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