Biodiversity Collapse

An endangered bird is forgetting its song as the species dies out.

A tiny fish has 'theory of mind'. So - Chris Packham asks in a new BBC series - what makes us humans so different from other animals?

Climate breakdown and agriculture driving habitat loss, leading to extinctions.

The pandemic itself is a powerful, daily reminder and with an extremely high cost of life showing how nature and human species are interdependent.

Latest 'Red List' for maples or Acers reveals 36 of 158 species are at high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Wildlife Trusts warn the proposed changes to the planning system will increase the threat to nature.

RSPB says UK failing to protect land and sea habitats and reverse the slide towards extinction for threatened species.

Conservation charity WWF said nature was in “freefall” due to human activity, mainly intensive agriculture and the destruction of habitat.

Rewilding Britain supports a doubling of the country’s woodland cover over the next decade, from 13 percent now to at least 26 percent.

A further 558 mammal species could be extinct by the end of this century.

A shocking 16,900 tonnes of pesticides are applied to the countryside every year - threatening our life support systems.

Jaguars in the Atlantic Forest, which spans Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, have doubled in number to 200 in last 15 years.

The huge boats - the largest of which is more than 465ft long - 'vacuum' up huge quantities of fish every day.

Researchers said this may partly reflect global climate change.

World's most unique animals in danger of being made extinct by "unprecedented levels of human pressure" from industrial activity such as agricultural expansion.

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.

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

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

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

No single country is adequately protecting children's health or environment.

Birds which breed and feed on the 75 percent of UK land which is farmed have seen declines of 55 percent since 1970s.

Badger culling and mass badger vaccination are unsafe and costly practices that interfere with protected species.

The State of Nature report warns there is no let-up in net losses for the UK's wildlife.