A Flickr image of a seal taken at Scotland’s Forvie nature reserve.
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Social media data can reveal where people are watching nature – and consequently where animals may be under pressure.
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Elusive and mysterious by nature, ordinary people are revealing the secrets of the UK’s octopuses.
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Shaded valleys and other cool habitats could help save threatened plants and animals from extinction.
Cecil the Lion shortly before he was killed.
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The Cecil movement didn’t lead to any deep-seated changes as trophy hunting persists in many parts of Africa.
Maasai women on a conservation project in Kenya.
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July 17, 2018
Stephen Garnett , Charles Darwin University ; Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares , University of Helsinki ; Catherine Robinson , CSIRO ; Erle C. Ellis , University of Maryland, Baltimore County ; Hayley Geyle , Charles Darwin University ; Ian Leiper , Charles Darwin University ; James Watson , The University of Queensland ; Julia E. Fa , Manchester Metropolitan University ; Kerstin Zander , Charles Darwin University ; Micha Victoria Jackson , The University of Queensland ; Pernilla Malmer , Stockholm University ; Tom Duncan , Charles Darwin University , and Zsolt Molnár , Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
A new map shows that more than 25% of all land outside Antarctica is held and managed by Indigenous peoples. This makes these communities vital allies in the global conservation effort.
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Under the terms of the current treaty all commercial mining is forbidden, but rumblings of discontent are stirring beneath the ice.
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The Earth is losing more and more biodiversity every day, and we should all be worried
A whale shark basking in the Maldivian shallows.
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Why do whale sharks come together at just 20 locations around the globe?
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Scientists have created embryos from the eggs of southern white rhino and sperm from their northern counterparts.
Elephants at the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
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Botswana is launching a consultative process to review the current ban on elephant hunting.
The Canada 150 Sequencing Initiative will sequence the genomes of 150 organisms important to Canadians, publishing the results in public databases.
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By sequencing the genomes of other species, we can better understand our place in natural history.
Increased logging in NSW could affect threatened species.
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More logging will occur in NSW if conservation areas are rezoned by the state government.
Wedge-tailed eagles have been found poisoned in East Gippsland.
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The poisoning of dozens of wedge-tailed hawks in Victoria could affect the entire wild population.
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For decades, state and federal governments have shed environmental budgets and staff. Now it’s up to volunteers to fill the gap.
Mala, also known as rufous hare-wallabies, will be protected behind an enormous cat-proof fence.
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Conservation fences create a few hundred square kilometres of safety for vulnerable native animals surrounded by 7.6 million lethal square kilometres.
Crowdfunded campaigns to save the orange-bellied parrot are a rare ray of hope.
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When environmental needs outstrip government funds, people power steps up.
Conservationists are at loggerheads about how to save elephants from poaching.
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Improving livelihoods by exploring alternatives to wildlife trade would help to curb the poaching of threatened species like elephants.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the post-budget debate.
New Zealand’s coalition government in its first budget has treated public policies as investments, with the goal of improving social and environmental outcomes.
Nature offers many benefits to people.
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Governments around the world have vowed to halt the loss of global biodiversity by 2020, but without more investment, we’ll miss some of the targets.
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Many sacred sites such as temples, and churchyards are havens for biodiversity.