UK Environment Minister Richard Benyon visits a wildlife preserve on the River Thames and welcomes a report showing the continuing recovery of otters in England. Source: DEFRA

Having discovered a new monkey species in the Amazonian jungles of Colombia, scientists warn that it is near extinction – only 250 exist. Source: Reuters

Europe’s indigenous eel population has decreased by 70 percent over the past 30 years with botanists blaming change in their natural habitat, as well as a virulent parasite carried in a species of Japanese eel imported for agricultural purposes in the early 1980′s. Source: Reuters