Species Extinction

A billion animals have died in the Australian bushfire. But we need to avoid making things worse.

Nature Communications meta-analysis suggests evolution not quick enough to guarantee their persistence during climate changes.

Why I am willing to break the law to force radical action on climate breakdown

Our current, dominant forms of conservation are not equal to the task of responding to these new realities; we need urgent reforms.

Scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from the Siberian permafrost to balmy California. Here you can read an edited extract of The Re-Origin of Species by TORILL KORNFELDT

A new book, Fragile Web, reveals why the biodiversity crisis may be humanity's biggest challenge

Irshad Mobarak, a self-taught naturalist and environmentalist from the Malaysian island of Langkawi says that development need not mean destruction

The first great bustards born in the wild in the UK since 1832 hatched last week. The reintroduction of this and many other species is invigorating the countryside, but eradicating foreign invaders - animals and plants - is equally important

With global warming putting pressure on animals and biodiversity in the tropics, is it time we had a new poster child for climate change, asks William Laurance

From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.
Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission

The increasingly loathed 'tree rat' may not be to blame for the red squirrel's decline after all

A decade and a half after conservationists wrung from the European Parliament a commitment to end the trade, the EU remains the largest importer of parrots in the world.

Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living

Just as Sir Nicholas Stern’s report in October 2006 put a price on the effects of climate change, a new report by the UN has begun to cost out the threat of failing to conserve the world’s biodiversity – a cool £40 billion annually, and rising.

Context is all in a comprehensive new anthology of verse with an environmental bent. These poems make sense of a disappearing world...

Natural resources,are increasingly responsible for fuelling violence across the world. Now some environmentalists want to fight back – using force if necessary.

A weedkiller that kills a lot more than simply weeds? If it’s worse than the poison it’s no cure at all, says Pat thomas

From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and Béarn, to the Basque country in the North, both locals and tourists are used to seeing Nationalist slogans daubed in white paint on Pyrenean mountain roads. But now a new clarion call is vying for their attention: Non Ours (no bears) and Mort aux Ours (death to the bears.)

The British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) will this week call for for a five-year £8m research programme to save the insect from colony collapse disorder (CCD).

A huge soda-ash mining plant to be built on the banks of Lake Natron in Tanzania will push the lesser flamingo to the brink of extinction, the Guardian has reported.

Forty-two biologists and botanists have sent a signed petition to the governments of British Columbia and Canada calling for full protection of the country's old-growth forest.

Another animal’s gone extinct. But this time it’s one of our most beloved creatures – a dolphin. Malcolm Tait reports on a species loss that is more than just another statistic

A new programme from the Zoological Society of London promises to protect endangered and little-known species