Endangered species, habitat loss, conservation efforts, and the biodiversity crisis.
‘Like a horror movie’: Coogee’s regulars think twice about swimming after shock shark attack
A great white shark attacked surfer Leah Stewart at Coogee Beach in Sydney, leaving the beach community shaken and deterring swimmers from returning t…
Bycatch has ‘shocking’ toll on British marine life, first-ever analysis reveals
Thousands of protected British marine animals perish annually as bycatch, according to the first comprehensive analysis of fishing mortality data rele…
The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?
Scalloped hammerhead sharks thrive inside the Galápagos marine reserve but face severe threats once they leave protected waters to breed. Researchers …
Country diary: Our island’s wandering wallabies come at a cost | Tim Earl
Red-necked wallabies, escaped from a private collection in the 1960s, now inhabit the Ballaugh Curraghs marshland on the Isle of Man. The population h…
Paving paradise: Dismantling the US Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife, water and peace in the last quiet places in America
The Biden administration faces pressure to weaken or eliminate the Roadless Rule, a 1990s-era regulation that protects 58.5 million acres of federal f…
Meet the people protecting the magic beans of life from extinction | Jess Harwood
The Australian PlantBank operates as a repository unlike any other institution globally, housing seeds and genetic material from thousands of plant sp…
What is killing Sumatra’s elephants? The battle to save one of our rarest animals
A mother Sumatran elephant and her calf were found dead in Bengkulu province in southern Sumatra in late April, their tusks still present and cause of…
Giving guitarfish a chance: one man’s mission to persuade fishers to farm giant snails instead
Marine biologist Issah Seidu is redirecting Ghana's fishing communities toward giant snail farming to protect guitarfish, an ancient and critically en…
Week in wildlife: a squirrel with a splint, hungry hyenas and a great white shark
Wildlife photographers captured animal moments from across the globe this week, documenting both human intervention and predator behavior in natural e…
Pandemic Roulette
# Pandemic Roulette: How Wildlife Trade Spreads Disease Across Species Billions of live animals circulate through global wildlife trade networks each…
I was a hardcore twitcher. I understand why the Cocos booby has Australia’s birders in a frenzy | Andrew Stafford
A black-headed gull sighting in Western Australia has triggered an intense search among Australian birdwatchers, a response that reveals the deep scie…
Tropical heron spotted in UK for first time as more exotic birds arrive to thrill birdwatchers
A western reef heron, a tropical species native to coastal regions between west Africa and India, appeared in north Wales last week in what experts be…
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the species survive?
Successive bushfires have devastated breeding habitat for endangered pink cockatoos in Victoria's Wyperfeld National Park, threatening the species' su…
A Massive Volunteer Network in Florida Works to Save Endangered Sea Turtles
Scott Dexter coordinates a volunteer rescue operation in Florida's Gulf of Mexico, where teams hoist endangered loggerhead sea turtles onto platforms …
Gee, whiz: elephant relieves itself on floor of Texas Republican convention
An African elephant named Paige was brought to the Texas Republican Party's annual convention in Houston on Friday as a surprise attraction. The four-…
Britain’s favourite butterfly revealed – and it’s a familiar backyard beauty
Butterfly Conservation conducted the first national poll to identify Britain's favourite butterfly, with over 20,000 votes cast across 60 native speci…
Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens
England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will introduce a natural history GCSE after more than a decade of advocacy for a dedicated biodiversity curriculu…
Goblin shark with face ‘not even a mother would love’ seen alive in natural habitat for first time
Scientists have documented goblin sharks alive in their deep ocean habitat for the first time ever, marking a watershed moment for understanding one o…
Country diary: A tiny orchid with mighty powers of deception | Oliver Southall
The fly orchid deploys one of nature's most elaborate deceptions: its flower mimics a female wasp so convincingly that male wasps attempt to mate with…
Big agriculture is killing our bees. We’ll all pay the price | Jennie Durant
Commercial beekeepers lost more than 60 percent of their colonies last winter, marking the worst losses on record. The USDA traced recent colony colla…
‘To them a power line is a line of trees’: Costa Rica moves to protect howler monkeys from electrocution
Costa Rica's constitutional court ruled this week that power utilities must implement safety measures to protect wildlife from electrocution, marking …
Big gains for little terns: how Lindisfarne reserve is helping a rare bird survive tourism
Little terns nesting on Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve in Northumberland are recovering thanks to targeted protection measures, including seasona…
Biscayne Bay Is Slowly Becoming the Ocean
Miami's Biscayne Bay hosts one of the Atlantic's most vital nurseries for imperiled sharks and sawfish, yet the shallow waters face mounting threats f…
Sharks, seals, hunters, tourists – how wildlife-human interactions matter for conservation
Human encounters with wildlife in South Africa are forcing conservation scientists to rethink how they protect endangered species and manage ecosystem…