Biodiversity

This World Biodiversity Day we must recognise the globally important role mangrove forest ecosystems play.

India has recently relaxed laws around gene-edited crops, despite concerns about 'unpredictable' risks to health and biodiversity. 

World’s whales facing increasing threats along migration ‘superhighways’ from ghost nets, oil drilling and other pollutants.

Rewilding Britain will offer up to £15,000 each for projects that create new opportunities for large-scale restoration of nature.

UK biodiversity renewal project to revive nature and communities receives £10 million investment.

The resilience of vertebrates worldwide - our life support systems - is being undermined by our economic activity, study shows.

Hunting in Britain has come under renewed scrutiny. This is an opportunity to further protect our wildlife.

The Green party wants to give nature rights equivalent to people through a Rights of Nature Act.

Humans did not hunt mammoths to extinction - the majestic mammals were a victim of rapid climatic changes.

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.

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

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.