nature conservation

Mother and calf Humback whales rest at the surface of the Caribbean Sea.

Ship strikes threaten the 1.3 million whales left in our oceans

Annual count

How do you count an ant colony?: London Zoo takes stock of its animals

A farmer in a jhum field of millet cultivation

Indigenous community in India offers lessons in climate resilience

Cane toads are highly toxic.

Which country is struggling to contain a toad invasion?

Portuguese islands create Europe’s largest protected marine area

Portuguese islands create Europe’s largest protected marine area

The minuscule snails were believed to have been lost forever.

Snails the size of a pinhead brought back from brink of extinction

Fungal networks are being mapped for the first time. Image shows the reproductive spores containing nuceli.

How a map of underground mushrooms can help us fight climate change

Conservationists help climate-threatened plants in the Western Ghats mountain range

These women are fighting off cobras to protect India’s biodiversity

30/11/2021

The innovation comes from the word-famous architectural firm founded by Zaha Hadid

Extraordinary 'floating continent' could clean up our oceans

29/11/2021

Tree-planting has stepped up in Ukraine.

Ukraine is going to plant one billion trees to fight climate change

22/11/2021

In order to get samples for the cloning process, the team needs to climb to the top of the giant sequoias.

Meet the man cloning the world's oldest trees

14/11/2021

Indigenous-governed land has the highest levels of biodiversity.

Why Indigenous communities must be centre of biodiversity policies

06/11/2021

Kaluki Paul Mutuku, African regional director at Youth4Nature

Faces of COP26: Meet the climate advocate standing up for young people

03/11/2021

Milly Hayward restores peat bogs in Scotland for a living.

Faces of COP26: Meet the 24-year-old restoring Scotland’s peat bogs

01/11/2021

Photo of a northern white rhino and an armed guard from series 'No Man’s Land' selected for Px3 'State of the World' collection. 2021.

In pictures: The guardians of the last two northern white rhinos

26/10/2021

Scientists are preserving endangered coral in artificial reefs

Scientists battle to save Florida's coral reef from 'mysterious' disease

15/10/2021

A fragment of Amazon rainforest stands next to soy fields in Belterra, Para state, Brazil.

What would a 90% loss of global biodiversity mean for the planet?

14/10/2021

A pink river dolphin in the Amazon Rainforest

Rare pink dolphins saved by high-tech fishermen in the Amazon

12/10/2021

Kew Gardens, UK.

Britain’s royal botanical gardens have just broken a world record

21/09/2021

Mura River at sunset

‘Amazon of Europe’ is first UNESCO biosphere to cover five nations

16/09/2021

Planting more trees isn't the catch-all answer to carbon capture, but it could be part of the solution.

Capturing carbon is slow and difficult - is nature the answer?

16/09/2021

River Thames: Britain's famous seal population has dipped in numbers

The number of seals living in Britain's River Thames has fallen

07/09/2021

Nzuri the little lioness was born at the Bioparc Zoo in France on the 1st of July, 2021.

'Magnificent' lion cub celebrates her 2-month birthday at French zoo

05/09/2021

London Zoo held its annual “weigh-in” of its animals on August 26.

London Zoo's animals step onto the scales for annual check-up

01/09/2021

Every time a new child arrives in Wales a tree gets planted in Mbale, Uganda.

Which country is planting a tree for every baby that is born?

23/08/2021

A tranquillised black rhino is suspended from a helicopter in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

Hanging rhinos upside down is ‘vital’ for their conservation

18/08/2021

Through sustainable methods, Indigenous and local communities have safeguarded the Maya Biosphere Reserve.

How has 30 years of logging saved the rainforest in Guatemala?

09/08/2021

Tortoises in Somersby, Australia on a FaceTime call.

Two endangered tortoises meet for their first date via FaceTime

03/08/2021

Secret shark mating rituals have been discovered

The secret sex lives of sharks have been revealed by new tech

02/08/2021

Patagonia, Argentina

Why is rewilding Argentina ‘essential for our survival’?

02/08/2021