Mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
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Surveys are likely to have missed multiple groups and individuals due to differences in survey techniques.
Birds are disoriented by smoke and often cannot escape a fire.
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In a matter of weeks, the fires have subverted decades of dedicated conservation efforts for many threatened species.
Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi.
Jason I. Ransom
Building connections and grassroots efforts will sustain conservation over the long term.
Hostile reactions to spiders are harming conservation efforts.
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There is little to fear and lots to love about spiders, which have not killed anyone in Australia for 40 years.
Peter Tyrrell
Most of Kenya’s biodiversity needs protecting outside protected areas in human‐dominated landscapes that are undergoing rapid change.
Scientists can now track butterfly migration in real time with the help of volunteers.
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Citizen scientists across North America have contributed over 1 million observations to this online platform, generating data useful for researchers.
A genetic “clock” lets scientists estimate how long extinct creatures lived. Wooly mammoths could expect around 60 years.
Australian Museum
Knowing an animal’s normal lifespan is hugely important for conservation efforts, but it’s harder to find out than you’d think.
A Tsaatan community in northern Mongolia, herding reindeer.
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Who wins, who loses and whose natures are being talked about when nature-based solutions are proposed?
Rebecca Young
Farming and habitat destruction have caused the species to disappear from large areas of Europe.
St Andrews Bay, South Georgia. A colony of young penguin chicks wait for their parents to return with food.
BBC Studios/Fredi Devas
Wildlife TV producers used to think that focus on environmental issues could only be structured around doom and gloom stories – scaring away large audiences.
Australia is home to many new species, including wild camels found nowhere else on Earth.
Species counts drive conservation science and policy, yet a major component of biodiversity is excluded from the data: non-native species.
A bear leaving its calling card.
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An animal’s poop may seem like something to avoid, but it’s full of information about the creature that left it there.
A knobbed hornbill in tropical forest, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
Extinction of the woolly mammoth and other megafauna caused surviving animals to go their separate ways.
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After the woolly mammoth and other megafauna became extinct, surviving animals mingled less. This has big implications for modern conservation.
The Delta’s rich array of wildlife makes it a popular tourist destination.
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It’s imperative that we understand what creates and sustains the delta for the future management of the system.
Naya was a mother to the first Belgian-born cubs in over a century. All are now thought to be dead.
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Europe is getting wilder as more people live in cities, but Naya’s death shows this trend may have limits.
Bison in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, N.D.
Jay Gannett
Scientists have tracked endangered species for years. Now they’re figuring out how to highlight animals and plants that have recovered – but what does that mean?
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, site of a savage Civil War battle on Sept. 17, 1862.
NPS
Protected from development, natural landscapes worldwide are emerging from the violence of war.
The Maria Fire billows above Santa Paula, California on Oct. 31.
AP/Noah Berger
‘California is America fast-forward,’ writes one scholar. Does that mean that the dystopian infernos that have consumed parts of the state are simply a picture of what awaits the rest of America?
One in four of nearly 800 animals genetically tested were pure dingo.
Michelle J Photography
There is a myth that dingoes are extinct and wild dogs are all that remain in Australia. Our results show dingoes in New South Wales persist despite some mixing with domestic dogs.