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A bison rewilding project has welcomed a new cohort of grazing animals which ecologists say will improve biodiversity.

Longhorn cattle, iron-age pigs and Exmoor ponies have joined the bison herd at the Wilder Blean Project near Canterbury, Kent.

Beavers are to return to an urban part of London for the first time in 400 years.

The rodents were once hunted to near extinction in the UK.

David Beckham famously gave them the boot in 2006 after activists sent him graphic images of animals being slaughtered for his shoes.

And now the premium kangaroo leather football boots ditched by the former England captain and made by the likes of Nike, Adidas and Puma, are soon to be given the red card after pressure from animal rights campaigners, celebrities and a clampdown in the US.

Plans to ban imports of animal hunting trophies to Great Britain are set to become law.

The government has backed legislation which would stop hunters bringing back body parts of thousands of species, including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears, killed abroad.