Most of Iran is wild and beautiful, but development threatens to degrade highly-prized ecosystems. Now new research is honing in on the hotspots, to preserve biodiversity in expanded protected areas.
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One meadow made enough sand to create a new island in 18 years.
The Bahama warbler favours large pine trees and palms, fieldwork shows.
The swamp has not yet been drained everywhere.
To guard against extinction, we must advocate for common species.
Tinkering around the margins of English farms won’t benefit biodiversity, research suggests.
Sharks and rays are traded for their meat, liver and other products. The global demand for these products has increased, and in India, the trade affects livelihoods and culture.
Our research looked at data from the government’s annual baking competition. Upon close analysis, we find a dangerous lack of diversity and biases towards cute, cuddly mammals.
Despite their sharp-looking pincers, earwigs have a reputation for being tender parents.
Atlantic rainforests once lined the island’s west coast – and could one day return.
Tigers exist in South Africa because they’re being intensively farmed for commercial trade in live individuals or their body parts.
A new gecko species in New Zealand was named te mokomoko a Tohu in consultation with a local Māori tribe. This could be a good example for how taxonomists might approach the naming of new species.
Destructive mining in Congo’s protected areas is rampant because it generates money for citizens, officials and armed groups.
The findings suggest that poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and levels of local human development are higher.
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Scientists use biologging devices to track animal behaviour – here are four times where it has improved our understanding of nature.
Rodents are the most numerous – and least studied – of all Earth’s mammals.
Environmental DNA like skin cells, blood and faeces can be extracted from water, soil, ice or air to provide a good snapshot of an ecosystem.
In order to meet its 2030 biodiversity targets, Canada is heavily relying on Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, which could do more harm than good for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
Global summits to arrest Earth’s deteriorating health look increasingly farcical.
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