Land ownership has always been a sensitive issue in the Amazon rainforest because of what the term entails – a persistent tension between...

On Wednesday, 195 countries will gather in Montreal, Canada, for COP15, the UN’s biodiversity summit to halt ecological destruction and...

As 196 governments prepare for negotiations on global action to halt biodiversity loss at COP15 in Montreal, Canada, experts warn that it...

Habitat loss is one of the main threats to biodiversity. One of the basic solutions to prevent wildlife extinction is to shield natural...

In September 2022, wildlife rangers working at the Wilder Blean bison project near Canterbury in Kent, discovered a bison calf, the first...

This Orangutan Caring Week, which runs from 13 to 19 November, we focus on how we can turn our compassion for orangutans into positive...

Scientists agree that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event, driven largely by human activity. As severe weather events...

The sex of sea turtles is temperature-dependent with more females born in hot temperatures and males at lower temperatures. Increasing...

The wetlands, peat bogs, and forests of Polesia, as well as the mountainous, rocky regions of Carpathia, are home to some of Ukraine’s...

Nations around the world are already bearing the brunt of climate change and, unless we reverse this trend, the effects that they are...

We are all familiar with the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, which inaccurately depicted great white sharks as “mindless eating machines”. Despite...

When talking about urban wildlife, we refer to animals that live and thrive in human-dominated ecosystems. With a growing number of...

Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced by far the worst wildlife population decline, an average of 94% in the same period....

It is hard to contextualise the effects of aquaculture on land-based food production. However, maintaining sustainable advancements is...

Australia’s wildlife has experienced a sharp decline and most of the continent’s ecosystems are rapidly deteriorating or even...

There are between 5.3 million and one trillion species on Earth and while humans just make up 0.01% of the planet’s life, their...

Among the countries where whales are still hunted for commercial reasons, Norway ranks first. The highest amount of whales are killed...

Life under water is quite fascinating, so much so that more than 80% of the ocean still remains unexplored by humans due to insufficient...

To meet the ever-increasing fish demand, global seafood production has quadrupled over the past 50 years. As one of the biggest...

For decades, asexual reproduction in animals, known as parthenogenesis, has been thought to be the key to protecting endangered species....