Conservation

Thanks to climate change the southern Amazon rainforest is "drying out", say US researchers.

Being mindful of your direct and indirect water consumption is beneficial to the planet, your health and your finances writes Ruth Barton....

From Eastern Europe, Luke Dale-Harris argues that the extent to which the findings of a recently published report can be considered positive depend on one's perspective of rewilding.........

As London Fashion Week concludes, Dr Charudutt Mishra explains how demand for cashmere is affecting Central Asian wildlife, and how enlisting the support of local people will be essential for the future of snow leopard conservation.......

The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system, and the diversion of the system's revenue to banks are possible, writes Pete Dolak, because water - the most basic human need - has become a means to extract profit from the City's people.

Professor Tony Martin reports on the latest phase of the world’s largest rat eradication project, which seeks to restore a threatened habitat and secure the existence of the remarkable birds and sea life that call the island home.....

Sam Hope, expedition and dive manager in Belize for marine conservation charity Blue Ventures, answers some searching questions about science, conservation, and superpowers........

The Moorland Association reports that habitat management, predator control, and collaboration with ornithologists are factors that have been paramount in the resurgence of populations of the Ring Ouzel....

The US's 'dash to frack' for oil or gas, which has transformed the country's energy market, is seriously depleting and contaminating aquifers and surface water supplies, writes Valerie Brown. The choice facing America is plain - energy, or water?

Ecologist writer Luke Dale-Harris questions the ability of Natura 2000 to work as an effective environmental regulator

What's really behind the sudden global concern over the Inuit’s right to hunt - a concern that swung the polar bear vote at CITES? Luke Dale-Harris reports

The CITES COP16 (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) has just ended in Bangkok, to very mixed reviews. Lorna Howarth reports on the good news, and the bad.

Community-based land conservation is a valuable implement in the conservation tool-box, but not a magic bullet, says David Shaw

To the people of the Faroe Islands the slaughter of pilot whales for food is a sustainable practice. Gavin Haines tries to make sense of this much maligned tradition and struggles to determine where we can and/or should impose a different cultural notion of sustainability on others

Our Focus on Food, plus why we need to defend the rights of Nature