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From The Guardian, Patrick Barkham , Eddited by - Vinuri Randula Silva,   Endangered species enjoys best summer in 150 years thanks to habitat restoration scheme A large blue butterfly in one of two new colonies re-introduced to a National Trust Cotswold site.  Photograph: David Simcox/Royal Entomological Society The large blue butterfly has enjoyed its best summer for 150 years in Britain thanks to targeted restoration work, which is also benefiting other rare insects including the rugged oil beetle and the shrill carder bee. The butterfly, which  became extinct in Britain in 1979  but was reintroduced via caterpillars from Sweden four years later, flew in its greatest numbers in June this year since records began. South-west England now supports the world’s greatest known concentration of large blues,  which are listed as  one of Europe’s most endangered insect species. Up to a third of its British population is found on 12 new sites which a conservation partnership has restored to f

  By Vanessa Buschschlüter, BBC News, Eited by Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, FUNAI Image caption, In 1998, the man was caught on video during a chance encounter The last remaining member of an uncontacted indigenous group in Brazil has died, officials say. The man, whose name was not known, had lived in total isolation for the past 26 years. He was known as Man of the Hole because he dug deep holes, some of which he used to trap animals while others appear to be hiding spaces. His body was found on 23 August in a hammock outside his straw hut. There were no signs of violence. The man was the last of an indigenous group whose other remaining six members were killed in 1995. The group lived in the Tanaru indigenous area in the state of Rondônia, which borders Bolivia. The majority of his tribe were thought to have been killed as early as the 1970s by ranchers wanting to expand their land. The Man of the Hole is thought to have been about 60 years old and to have died of natural causes. Th

By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, Cape Canaveral, Eited by Amal Udawatta IMAGE SOURCE, NASA Image caption, T-38 planes, a fixture of astronaut training at Nasa, fly over the SLS on launch pad 39B at Kennedy The American space agency is counting down to the lift-off of its giant new Moon rocket - the Space Launch System. SLS is the most powerful vehicle ever developed by Nasa, and will be the foundation of its Artemis project which aims to put people back on the lunar surface after a 50-year absence. The moon mission will lay groundwork for flights to Mars in the 2040s. The rocket is timed to go up from the Kennedy Space Centre at 08:33 local time (12:33 GMT; 13:33 BST) on Monday. Its job will be to propel a test capsule, called Orion, far from Earth. This spacecraft will loop around the Moon on a big arc before returning home to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in six weeks' time. Orion is uncrewed for this demonstration but assuming all the hardware works as it should,