Wildlife Conservation
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Coronavirus closures threaten future of Papua New Guinea’s only animal rescue centre
From the heat and dust of the city’s noisy, crowded streets, the Port Moresby Nature Park is an oasis, for the city’s…
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World wildlife plummets more than two-thirds in 50 years
Human activity has severely degraded three quarters of all land and 40 percent of Earth’s oceans, and our quickening destruction…
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More than half of government environmental scientists say their work has been suppressed: report
Of the more than 200 environmental scientists from government, university and non-government organisations (NGOs) consulted for the survey, those… Nick…
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Zimbabwe investigating 22 elephant deaths
Most of the elephants dying in the Pandamasue Forest between the vast Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls were young…
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Scotland’s grouse shooting estates are waging a war on wildlife that must stop – Robbie Marsland
Over 15 months, a professional surveyor spent 128 days walking 404 square kilometres of land on seven Scottish shooting estates.…
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Rampant destruction of forests ‘will unleash more pandemics’
Scientists are to warn world leaders that increasing numbers of deadly new pandemics will afflict the planet if levels of…
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Australia fires: Similar or worse disasters ‘will happen again’
The review – which looked at New South Wales (NSW), the worst-hit state – made sweeping proposals aimed at better…
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Bob Brown lawsuit aims to end Tasmanian native forest logging
Should the foundation win, similar actions could be taken against native forest logging in Victoria, NSW and Western Australia, said…
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‘We can’t blame animals’: how human pathogens are making their way into vulnerable wildlife
For 13 years now, scientist Michelle Power has been grabbing samples of human waste and animal poop from Antarctica to…
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Coalition backs ‘cloud-brightening’ trial on Great Barrier Reef to tackle global heating
A government-backed research program to make the Great Barrier Reef more resilient to global heating will spend $4.7m this financial year…
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Why This Year Is Our Last, Best Chance for Saving the Oceans
The former marine biologist runs a scuba-diving center on the Australian island’s east coast, and rhapsodizes about the wonders of…
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The photographers changing the way we see animals
Savage and snarling, the giant gorilla of the King Kong films is a fearsome monster that needs to be appeased…
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This fantastical sea creature helps remove planet-warming gases from the atmosphere
Nearly transparent and no larger than a fist, the squishy tadpole-like animal was surrounded by an enormous balloon of mucus…
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Environmental catastrophe is declared as one of biggest ever Arctic oil spills stretches out over Taymyr tundra
The catastrophe was reported to the authorities only two days after the spill and nobody really knows how to clean…
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Inside Australia’s climate emergency: the dead sea – (Interactive)
The ocean around southern Australia is a global heating hotspot. One man has watched entire sea forests disappear in his…
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New High Seas Treaty Could Be a Gamechanger for the Ocean
Most of us have never been to the world’s immense last wilderness and never will. Tara Lohan The Revelator It’s…
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