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Wimbledon’s iconic tennis balls are finding a second life, providing safe shelters for harvest mice in England. Every year, over 55,000 tennis balls are used during the tournament. Instead of discarding them, Wimbledon has partnered with the Wildlife Trusts to repurpose them as weatherproof nests for these vulnerable animals. Harvest mice are tiny climbers, measuring […]

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