Biodiversity

Understanding how and why people perceive certain animals as less appealing than others could be the key to expanding public conservation efforts successfully.

Beavers to be released into the wild under ‘cautious’ Government plans.

Cruelty Free International, Animal Free Research UK and OneKind join forces to call on the UK Government to end animal testing.

Animal testing in British laboratories is down – now the government must target zero.

Conservation science is working alongside traditional knowledge to save Australia’s unique wildlife.

The shadowy parallel court system of major trade agreements makes it difficult for countries to ban broad-spectrum insecticides.

Are Rights of Nature the answer to our ecological crises?

Seaspiracy, the latest Netflix documentary exposing the impact of our food systems, is making a splash.

The promise of clinical efficacy through animal testing is dangerous.

Scientists have found that accidental capture by fisheries (bycatch), climate change and pollution are among the key drivers of decline.

New study first to suggest reproduction levels of animals rather than on body size is crucial when calculating extinction risk.

An endangered bird is forgetting its song as the species dies out.

A tiny fish has 'theory of mind'. So - Chris Packham asks in a new BBC series - what makes us humans so different from other animals?

Beavers, Europe’s largest rodent, are a keystone species who transform the landscape around them, creating new habitats.

Findings have important implications for management of urban rivers - including how river clean-ups are conducted.