Biodiversity

It's not quite the final scene of 12 Monkeys, but at least it's more real than dolphins in Venice. Animals in the UK are taking advantage of the lockdown.

Tim Bonyhady's 'The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia' shows how wilful ignorance has ravaged a nation’s indigenous species.

The Wild Ken Hill project on the Norfolk coast is turning around 1,000 acres of marginal farmland and woodland back over to nature.

Birds living in cities need an abundance of insects in their environment to breed successfully.

The success of a society should not be measured just in terms of material wealth, according to climate advisor Lord Deben.

The pandemic is causing untold misery for us humans, but other animals are being affected too.

New study overturns 'conventional wisdom' by finding significant tree evolutionary diversity in temperate and tropical dry forests.

Indigenous communities in Latin America are paying a high price for defending biodiversity, but we have so much to learn from their practices.

London Zoo is closed to visitors due to coronavirus and the charity is running out of cash. Should we nationalise the zoo? And should we free its animals?

'We are part of [nature] and if we destroy it we destroy ourselves.'

The most forward-thinking coronavirus researchers are forgoing cruel and archaic tests on animals in favour of cutting-edge human-relevant methods.

Three countries producing 95 percent of European olive oil production could lose billions because Xylella fastidiosa is killing trees.

The UK's more than 310,000 miles of rural road verges have become a refuge for wildflowers squeezed out of the wider countryside.

Environmental groups condemn Estonia’s rejection of ‘climate and biodiversity centered’ forestry impact assessment.

Exploitation of wildlife by humans has been increasing the risk of virus spillover.