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Farmers hold the key to nature conservation: let's treat them that way

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imageTo have any chance of coaxing species like the Secretary bird back from the brink of extinction we must reconcile the pressures of food production with the need for nature conservation.John Michael Evan Potter/Shu

The town of Bethlehem in the Free State Province, South Africa, gets its name from the Hebrew words “Beit lechem” - house of...

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Discovered: stone tools that go back beyond earliest humans

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imageThe oldest-known stone tool: made by a human ancestor or a chimp?MPK-WTAP

Archaeologists have discovered stone artefacts in Kenya dating back to 3.3m years ago – making them the oldest stone tools yet discovered. The finding pushes back the record of stone tools by 700,000 years. While the tools predate the earliest known representative of...

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