To save what’s left of nature on this increasingly human planet, conservation needs to become a top priority around the world, from the wildest of wildlands to the densest of cities.
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Studies show that West Africa's critically endangered chimpanzees are finding ways of adapting to their rapidly changing habitat, but they still remain highly at risk.
Lifting the trophy hunting moratorium in Botswana is more about politics and less about elephant conservation.
Countries can protect biodiversity and recognize Indigenous peoples as conservation partners.
A billion dollars a year would secure Africa's lions and its landscapes as well as millions of people living nearby.
National parks and nature reserves are vital for conservation, but are also great places for recreation. Balancing the two is tricky, but it can be done if we realise parks are not just playgrounds.
Efforts to conserve nature needs to include communities.
Land is culturally and historically important to people and often this is ignored when addressing land issues.
Governments around the world have vowed to halt the loss of global biodiversity by 2020, but without more investment, we'll miss some of the targets.
The world's national parks cover an area bigger than South America. But a new survey finds that one-third of this area is subject to pressure from human developments, potentially putting wildlife at risk.
New Zealand's wildlife and natural wonders are major draw cards for tourists, but tourism companies operating in national parks contribute little to conservation.
Since 1992, an area of land two-thirds the size of Australia has been converted to human use.
The world has lost 10% of its wilderness areas in the past 20 years and, with it, vast stores of carbon.
New research shows protected areas are doing well at protecting large, iconic wildlife, but less well at helping smaller species.
China needs to do more to manage the balance between conservation and tourism to protect its rich biodiversity.
Conservationists are increasingly looking to translocating rhinos. This not only ensures their safety but also enables improvements to their genetic health.
You can't simply 'value' nature as though it were a commodity able to be bought and sold.
The Tasmanian government this month released a draft of the revised management plan for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, which proposes rezoning certain areas from “wilderness zones” to “remote…
While we can never know for sure, an extraordinary number of animals and plants are threatened with extinction — up to a third of all mammals and over a tenth of all birds. And the problem is getting worse…
The scene was typical for an international gathering of governments: bureaucrats, sat behind nameplates and speaking through interpreters. But the less than typical result of the votes cast at this 1992…
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