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Conservation

15 November 2024

  • The visitor centre at Rainham Marshes in Essex

    Future of several RSPB nature reserves at risk as charity cuts costs

  • A human hand holding a white-clawed crayfish underwater

    Rescue mission begins after mysterious crayfish deaths in Northumberland

14 November 2024

  • Divers swim over the world's largest known coral, located near the Solomon Islands.

    World’s largest known coral discovered in Solomon Islands

  • Extreme close up of fire ant

    ‘Super pest’ fire ants found at property near Byron Bay in turf imported from Queensland

13 November 2024

  • A krill fishing ship in Antarctica.

    Krill fishing talks were derailed, but can be put back on track

    Letter: Geneviève Pons and Pascal Lamy say the UK has a unique opportunity to steer the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources towards a better outcome
  • A tiger

    South African tiger farms illegally smuggling body parts, says charity

    Biggest tiger farms outside Asia are operating freely in South Africa, Four Paws animal charity says
  • Hundreds of people sit at desks looking towards the stage, were a row of people sit behind microphone in front of a screen showing them in closeup ad the Cop16 logo.

    The age of extinction
    Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16

    Questions raised over influence after 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for biodiversity summit in Colombia

12 November 2024

  • A turtle dove perched on a branch

    Wild bird numbers continue ‘alarming’ decline in UK, Defra figures show

    All bird species have declined in number, after suffering habitat loss, pesticide use, climate breakdown and bird flu

11 November 2024

  • Tree-planting at Great Avon Wood, in the west of England.

    The age of extinction
    Global biodiversity offsetting doesn’t work – keep schemes local, say experts

    Voluntary standards proposed at Cop16 focus on local like-for-like habitat projects, while critics call the issue a ‘distraction’

10 November 2024

  • Two women throw oysters into the Firth of Forth from a boat

    Oysters doing well in Firth of Forth after reintroduction, say experts

  • A straining tower reflected on Lake Vyrnwy with woodland behind it

    ‘It’s a play area for townies’: visitors and residents row over plan for new national park in Wales

9 November 2024

  • Karst Kruen with red gum trees he planted in 2021

    The rural network, Victoria
    ‘It’s gang-gang country’: the landholders restoring farmland to forest in the Victorian alps

    Karst Kreun is planting 90,000 native trees on a Mansfield property to restore the land ‘as close as I can to what it was 200 years ago’

8 November 2024

  • a person wearing blue gloves holds two ferret babies who can't open their eyes

    Cloned black-footed ferret gives birth in ‘major milestone’ for conservationists

  • Young European eels (Anguilla anguilla) in UK waters.

    Why exporting endangered eels to Russia makes sense

7 November 2024

  • people fish on a beach

    Activists fear Florida enshrining right to fish and hunt will lead to trophy hunting

  • A curved structure passing over a railway line

    Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says

  • A moaning frog

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    From local pond to outback dunny, Australia’s biggest frog count is here – and researchers need your help

  • Four children walk along a dried up river in the Amazon

    Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report

  • The age of extinction
    Death threats, bodyguards and a Farc commander called Smurf: living dangerously with Colombia’s nature defenders

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Iceland’s president urged to intervene over licence for Europe’s last whaler

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