biodiversity

Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, the smallest primate in the world, is now critically endangered.

Corncrakes were once widespread across the country until populations fell dramatically with the intensification of farming.

🌳 Being able to identify biodiversity is essential for the appreciation and conservation of wildlife both on a local and global scale.

The mammals were hunted to extinction for their meat, fur and scent glands in the UK by the beginning of the 16th century but have since been reintroduced.

Conserving nature-rich areas such as the forests of Colombia provides sustainable livelihoods for local people and benefits for humankind.

Tyre particles can be transported directly to the ocean through the atmosphere, or be carried by rainwater into rivers.

The lockdown from one pandemic is being used in India to pave the way for the next, with a controversial plan to clear extremely valuable forests.

The Wildlife Trusts has launched its 'Leave it Wild' campaign.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Craig Bennett is taking over as the new chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts.

Biological invasions are considered the second cause of recent species extinctions.

Women’s organising in Kyrgyzstan serves as an example of the inseparable linkages between gender, environmental and economic justice. 

'The rush to mine this pristine and unexplored environment risks creating terrible impacts that cannot be reversed.'

Predictions based on computer simulations using real-world data gathered from more than 40 natural environments.

Some 600 native trees from oaks, birches and elder to dogwood, crab apple and blackthorn will be planted in Witney, Oxfordshire.

Biofouling leads the turtles into an 'olfactory trap' - causing them to ingest deadly marine plastic pieces.

Researchers from the Imperial College London scanned the brains of bees exposed to imidacloprid.