• As you would expect with a natural history site, there are tons of gorgeous wildlife images and video from across the globe, including shots of animals on land and beneath the waves.

    BBC: Love Earth

  • Population increase, over-consumption and galloping urbanisation have multiple consequences, including the increasing rarity of certain species of plants and animals, pollution, the over exploitation of land and the sea, as well as the spread of invasive alien species.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Mauritania has banned the use of plastic bags to protect the environment and the lives of land and sea animals.

    BBC: Mauritania bans plastic bag use

  • The country's State Forestry Administration estimates that desertification affects 400 million Chinese, many of whom lose the ability to farm their land or graze their animals and join the ranks of the tens of millions of internal environmental refugees, who often migrate to the big cities in search of new homes and jobs.

    CNN: Economic miracle, environmental disaster

  • Prof Hutchinson said the findings provided more clues about how the early animals physically moved out of the water and on to land.

    BBC: Science & Environment

  • Roughly 85% of all furs start out as farmed animals on unmarked plots of land, often to avoid the attention of animal rights activists. (Farming started as a U.S. practice in the 19th century.) Ranchers, most of them in northern Europe and North America, breed mink, foxes and chinchillas for consistency of color and texture.

    FORBES: Adventures In The Skin Trade

  • Over the River has fostered widespread discussion over who gets to use the land, and how to prioritize the interests of animals and humans.

    FORBES: Christo Is Building The World's Biggest Sculpture From Oil Drums In Abu Dhabi. Get The Message? (It Isn't What You Think.)

  • One theory is that a cooling event at the end of the Eocene dried up swamps and rivers, forcing animals out on to the land.

    BBC: Elephant 'had aquatic ancestor'

  • In the early going, scientists placed a mirror on the ground outside the elephant's cage, but the mirror was (unsurprisingly) much smaller than the largest of land animals.

    WSJ: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom

  • He has already seen a range of animals returning to his land and plans to encourage even more to join them with the help of this initiative.

    BBC: Farmers 'key to halting bird decline'

  • The 50-year-old farmer and businessman left the dead animals on land at Welton of Creuchies farm in Alyth over a five month spell last winter.

    BBC: Alyth farmer John Ferguson banned from keeping animals

  • The replacement of draft animals by machines released about 25% more land for growing food for human consumption.

    ECONOMIST: The story of man's staple food

  • The government remains adamant that the surest way to eradicate the disease is the mass slaughter of infected animals within 24 hours and livestock on neighbouring land within 48 hours.

    BBC: Farm disease hits Easter bookings

  • The theory of the tragedy of the commons is well-known: it is in the interests of any individual to add to his stock of animals on common land, even if that leads to further degradation.

    ECONOMIST: Nomadism in Mongolia

  • For many, however, this is a hot topic as some have suggested a direct connection between the presence of domestic cats and toxo-related infections in other animals, primarily land and marine mammals.

    FORBES: House Cats Said to Lead to Car Crashes, Suicides, and Mental Disorders

  • Because of the different seasons, wet and dry, we moved from place to place with our animals to seek grazing land.

    UNESCO: Title

  • Much of its land remains protected by the federal and state laws, which prohibit picking plants, feeding animals, open fires and bush camping.

    BBC: Brazil��s threatened slice of paradise

  • Although the crocodiles spend most of their life in salt water, they are not considered marine animals as they rely on land for food and water.

    BBC: Crocodiles 'surf' long distance on ocean currents

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