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.
Christopher Sandom
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.
Jose Andrés
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.
Juan Oliphant
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.
Andrew Suggit
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.
Joan de la Malla
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.
Melody Sky
Why do whale sharks come together at just 20 locations around the globe?