Overfishing leads to the deaths of millions of sharks each year.
Hollie Booth
Countries have voted to limit the international shark trade, but this fails to account for the diversity in fishing contexts around the world.
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Getting that detail right could mean the difference between a species surviving, or disappearing forever.
The Fulford Harbour sea garden clam bed was built by First Nations in the Salish Sea near Salt Spring Island, B.C. Despite growing recognition that lands managed by Indigenous Peoples are, on average, more biodiverse, biodiversity conservation has typically marginalized Indigenous Peoples.
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As we set conservation goals for the next decade, we need to evaluate what worked and what didn’t in our efforts to meet the 2020 biodiversity conservation targets.
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Negotiators hope to put humanity on a path to harmonious coexistence with nature by 2050.
Prince William at the awards in Boston, US.
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The environmental awards gave cash to climate scientists, conservationists and inventors.
Donkeys allow herders to travel further in the rocky terrain of southern Tunisia.
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Pastoral communities should be included in conservation initiatives – but the ecology of pastoral lands has long been misunderstood.
Red knots stop to feed along the Delaware shore as they migrate from the high Arctic to South America.
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Governments, scientists and conservation groups are working to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water for nature by 2030. Two scientists explain why scale matters for reaching that goal.
Redwood forests like this one in California can store large amounts of carbon, but not if they’re being cut down.
Shane Coffield
Millions of dollars have gone into California’s forest carbon offset program – with little new carbon storage to show for it, a new study suggests.
Hammerhead sharks schooling near Costa Rica’s Cocos Island.
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A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.
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Seeing an animal in distress after disaster makes us want to help. But feeding them doesn’t always make the situation better.
A herder grazes cattle alongside wildlife in Samburu, Kenya.
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Conservation that places less emphasis on who may or may not use a piece of land could result in better outcomes for people and wildlife.
A squadron of reef manta rays at a feeding site in Raja Ampat.
Our new, world-first research provides strong evidence of a significant increase in reef manta rays in protected areas of Raja Ampat over a decade.
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Inbreeding usually leads to an accumulation of genetic defects, but evolution on a small archipelago may have helped the severely inbred Chatham Island black robin to avoid this fate.
Peter Contos
New research shows rewilding with invertebrates – insects, worms, spiders and the like – can go a long way in bringing our degraded landscapes back to life.
It’s important that citizen science projects engage volunteers from across society, including young people. A new Australian initiative is doing just that.
Ivory poaching is threatening regional elephant populations.
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Japan was one of the world’s largest ivory markets – research explains why the country is no longer a key destination for the product.
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About a third of Victoria’s land-based plants, animals and ecological communities face extinction. We look at what the political parties have promised ahead of the state election.
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The embryo is frozen in liquid nitrogen until a suitable female donkey is found to grow it into a baby.
Honeybees are vital pollinators.
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The report results could help explain honeybee colony deaths.
Papua New Guinea frog Xenorhina macrodisca.
Stephen Richards
Melanesia’s tropical islands are home to at least 700 species of frogs – many with tiny ranges. We must safeguard these biological treasures.