Elsa Pataky cuddles up to a koala as she visits a wildlife sanctuary with her children – after she and husband Chris Hemsworth ‘made history’ by releasing the first Tasmanian devils on mainland Australia in 3,000 years By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:06 GMT, 13 November 2020 | Updated: 04:06 GMT, 13 … Read more
Protected areas of land around the world have become isolated from each other due to human activities such as farming, mining and urbanisation, study finds. More than 90 per cent of forests, parks and conservation areas are under intense pressure, leaving protected networks of plants and animals disconnected. Researchers from the University of Queensland studied … Read more
Don’t abandon us: More than 100 Afghan translators who worked with British troops beg Boris Johnson to help them find sanctuary in UK More than 100 former Afghan translators for the British military fear the Taliban will hunt them down In a letter to be handed in to the British embassy in Kabul today, they … Read more
Top US general David Petraeus demands Britain gives urgent sanctuary to Afghan translators who helped our heroes on the battlefield US General David Petraeus urged Home Secretary Priti Patel to help interpreters He said ‘we owe a considerable debt’ to translators who helped in Afghanistan The US had resettled their translators through a special immigrant … Read more
‘Do the right thing!’ Ex-Afghan war generals urge ministers to give translators sanctuary in Britain General Lord Dannatt said it was ‘disgraceful’ plight had dragged on for so long Meanwhile, General Lord Richards said Britain owed them an ‘incredible debt’ It comes as 48 interpreters are living in fear of the Taliban and the Islamic … Read more
Ministers were last night facing mounting pressure to give Afghan interpreters sanctuary in Britain immediately as more came forward to reveal their plight. The shocking stories of 48 interpreters who worked alongside British forces and say they have since been abandoned to the Taliban are laid bare in the Daily Mail today. Around 150 interpreters … Read more
Viewers of BBC2 wildlife series Bears about the House say they watched the latest episode of the series through tears after two bear cubs were stolen from the sanctuary that features in the programme. Conservationist Matt Hunt, CEO of Free the Bears and Giles Clark, an animal expert and conservationist from the UK, rescued five-month-old … Read more
Do testicles make men more vulnerable to coronavirus? Study suggests testes harbour Covid-19 giving virus sanctuary from immune system Covid-19 attaches to a cell protein called ACE2, which is found on the testes The same protein is not present in as high numbers on female ovarian tissue Men are dying from coronavirus at twice the … Read more