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Natural benefits of lockdown

THE Coronavirus lockdown has impinged on everyone’s life, but for wildlife and the environment, a lot of the changes have been for the good.

A survey carried out by Tristan Carlyle and Oliver Bulpitt, ecologists at Ecology by Design, shows that wildlife has been in the ascendancy

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