Biodiversity

The UK has an average of only 53 percent of its biodiversity left, according to the Natural History Museum.

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

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.

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.

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. 

A review of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (Bodley Head 2020).

Since 2018 almost 1000 hectares of land around lake Bolsena, Italy, has been appropriated by the chemically-grown hazelnuts industry.

Documentary makers collaborate with renowned Colombian band Bomba Estereo and actor Joaquin Phoenix to record indigenous environmental projects.

We need a new economy that supports humans as part of nature rather than profits and investments.

The global banks financing industries driving biodiversity collapse.

Natural Capital Committee finds five of seven areas examined - freshwater, marine, soils, plants and wildlife and land - are deteriorating.

To protect nature, our law should be based on interconnection.

Belgium pledges diplomatic action to halt ecocide crime.

This year’s United Nations Biodiversity Summit is a vital opportunity to protect threatened forests and wildlife from destructive industries.

The gorilla photoshoot and where human exceptionalism takes us.

UN sets out how it might be possible to 'bend the curve' and prevent the collapse of biodiversity.

Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report shows world leaders fail to meet goals agreed a decade ago.

The Karen Indigenous People in Myanmar founded the Salween Peace Park to protect their mega-diverse territory and their culture from extractivism and conflict.

The UK government will set long-term targets for air quality, resource efficiency and waste reduction, biodiversity, and water.