by Justin McCurry. Cinemas in Japan have cancelled plans to show an Oscar-winning film about the country's annual slaughter of thousands of dolphins after far-right campaigners threatened to disrupt the screenings.
Unplugged, the Japanese distributor of The Cove, said three cinemas had cancelled screenings amid fears they would be disrupted by ultra-nationalists, who have denounced the film as "anti-Japanese".
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by Juliette Jowit. The widespread disappearance of snakes will be one impact of climate change that some people may find it hard to regret. But as vital predators in sensitive habitats such as rice fields, their decline will have wider ecological consequence, say scientists.
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Record-breaking numbers of the rare large blue butterfly are expected to emerge in Somerset this month, after more than 20,000 eggs were counted there last summer. by Patrick Barkham
This year's fine spring weather is expected to help the butterfly break records at Collard Hill, near Glastonbury, where it was successfully reintroduced in 2000 after becoming extinct in Britain in 1979.
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