Near Christmas, volunteers put on a dazzling display of lights and, on the day before Christmas Eve, The Ship Inn cooks up a traditional dish of stargazy pie in honour of local lad Tom Bawcock, who supposedly ended a village famine by braving storms to land a bounty of fish.

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The rice was mainly imported from nearby Hunan, a province that is traditionally known as the "land of fish and rice, " thanks to its bountiful produce.

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But what has not been clear before is whether the common ancestor was, like the sea cow, aquatic and therefore whether elephants have undergone a tortuous evolutionary journey from water to land (when their remote ancestors changed from fish to amphibians) then back to water again, before finally returning to the land.

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If you go out from Earth up into space, you see our entire planet is a living organism - be it in the sea with all the fish, on the land with all the reptiles and mammals and insects, but the way man is behaving at the moment needs attention.

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"To track and spot a wolf from an aircraft, land and then kill it, is not considered to be a fair chase method, " said Alaska Department of Fish and Game commissioner Frank Rue.

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Both oenophiles and salmon lovers can see which vineyards are taking action via Fish Friendly Farming, a certification project from the non-profit and Napa-based California Land Stewardship Institute, which gives its stamp of approval to wineries and farms that work on habitat and water-quality issues.

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