The leopard population in a region of South Africa once thick with the big cats is crashing, and could be wiped out within a few years, scientists warned on Wednesday.
Illegal killing of leopards in the Soutpansberg Mountains has reduced their numbers by two-thirds in the last decade, the researchers reported in the Royal Society Open Science journal.
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Universities should be stripped of the right to charge £9,000 fees if they fail to admit poorer students and help them to get a job when they leave, the Government's social mobility tsar has warned.
Alan Milburn called on ministers to toughen up rules which allow universities to hike their charges to include stricter guidelines on how many low-income studentsRead more