A herd of Masai giraffe towering over zebras in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.
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The number of giraffes in Africa has dropped by 40% over the past 30 years, but the reasons for this remain largely unknown.
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Researching the most resilient corals could help us find ways to better protect reefs in the future.
Building an artificial reef.
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Coral reefs are in crisis around the world, and may disappear entirely. 3D printing is a new idea to help them – but it won’t be a cure all.
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Saving the rhino means tackling demand for its horn.
The Sumatran tiger is the only surviving member of the Sunda Islands group of tigers.
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This study gives science-based recommendations where exactly the investment for conservation should go.
On the fence.
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As both beneficiary and victim of EU policies, yellowhammers are apt symbols for Brexit’s divisions.
Do people in Nosey Be Madagascar benefit equally from ecotourism income and training opportunities?
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Efforts to conserve nature needs to include communities.
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Scientists asked young people to draw what they would like the natural world to look like when they’re older. Their imagination could help make conservationists more ambitious.
Oophaga andresii is one of the newly described species of Harlequin poison frog.
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With their jewel-like colours, Colombia’s poison frogs are coveted by collectors. Does naming their species help protect them or make them a target for trophy hunters?
Stormy seas ahead.
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Confrontation between French and British scallop fishers is a warning about the resource conflicts of the future.
Elephants in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
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Botswana has been an unparalleled elephant conservation success story. That seems to be changing.
Getting up close and personal can make you like sharks more, even if you already like them.
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Sharks have a PR problem. But new research shows that shark ecotourism programs boost people’s knowledge and attitudes towards shark conservation – even among those who are green-minded to begin with.
The majestic White Ibis.
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The ibis has become an Australian cultural phenomenon. The birds’ tenacity and fearlessness as environmental refugees mean they attract love and hate alike.
The Zanzibar Red Colobus is endemic to Tanzania.
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Tanzania faces the challenge of conserving forests in a developing country with a rapidly expanding population.
A fisherman checks his fish corral nets in the Cau Hai lagoon, Vietnam.
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When it comes to small-scale fisheries, there is no one route to sustainability. Finding success stories can help map those paths.
Terraced rice fields in northwest Vietnam.
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A new analysis explores what making space for nature means for our global food production systems.
A gorge in the Eastern Cape. Land is much more than a resource for many, it has a strong symbolic value.
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Land is culturally and historically important to people and often this is ignored when addressing land issues.
The endangered Coquerel’s Sifaka lemur.
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The endangered species list is over 90 000 and includes Madagascar’s lemurs.
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.
There’s one!
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Elusive and mysterious by nature, ordinary people are revealing the secrets of the UK’s octopuses.