IN NUMBERS

111cm

is the diameter of the largest single flower ever recorded. The Rafflesia tuan-mudae specimen was found in the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

2

spoon-billed sandpiper chicks have hatched at WWT Slimbridge. The captive flock was established in 2011 to save this rare wader.

£400m

per year is the cost of controlling black-grass – an agricultural weed – with herbicides in order to protect cereal crops in the UK, according to a ZSL report.