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Threats to the bee population became a global concern starting in 2006, when beekeepers first reported significant colony losses.

Also aboard the vessel was an extraordinary amount of gold, silver, emeralds, and other jewels, and more than eleven million coins, all collected in the South American colonies to finance the Spanish king’s war effort.

Earlier this year, conservation organizations and representatives from the fishing industry reached a high court agreement acknowledging the need for fishery closures around penguin colonies.

Despite a lack of evidence, Dreyfus was convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment in the infamous Devil's Island penal colony in French Guiana and publicly stripped of his rank.

The South West Wildcat Project hopes to bring back 50 European wildcats, from 2028, after a study found a colony could "flourish" in the mid-Devon countryside.