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...When I was 10, a juvenile female northern bottlenose whale got lost and ended up in the Thames, drifting along among the sludge and London run-off....
...In its more recent history, some 10,000 years ago, it was green, running with elephants, antelopes and giraffes....
...Turner’s shadow is ever-present in the photos and inspirational books in his office....
...“Humans are not on the menu plan of wolves,” says Reinhard Schnidrig, head of wildlife and forest biodiversity at the federal environment office in Bern....
...We even catch one juvenile briefly practising a drumroll chest thump. The silverback is gone and I presume we won’t see him again....
...On the second night we ventured to the slopes on the other side of the valley and passed a series of villas with elaborate names, high walls and perfectly manicured gardens....
...Untypically for a holiday rental (though not a presidential retreat), there are offices and a conference room, with a table designed to evoke a Xhosa shield, a nod to Mandela’s ethnicity....
...He has some talent, but so do many other scrappy Kenyans from the lush highlands to the west of the Rift Valley. It’s the year 2000....
...In 2009 Mr Hoffman joined Greylock Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm....
...Kenya has begun converting 5,000 acres of savannah dotted with antelopes and ringed by hills into “the most modern city in Africa”....
...– and 50 per cent of the fresh water stops in Silicon Valley, 20 per cent of the water in Los Angeles – it stops. Eighty per cent of the water for farms in the Central Valley – stops.”...
...Torbreck is one of the gold-standard names of South Australia’s most famous wine region, Barossa Valley....
...The 30-year-old telecoms manager is standing in front of a large, imposing house in Palmdale, a city in the Antelope Valley about an hour north of Los Angeles....
...The budget the governor releases today also includes new spending for long-awaited reforms inside the state’s beleaguered juvenile prisons, which house about 3,200 of California’s most serious offenders...
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