An Egyptian slit-faced bat, Nycteris thebaica .
Mariëtte Pretorius
The scarcity of bat fossils is more than a palaeontological puzzle: it has implications for bat conservation strategies today.
Tundra swans migrating from southern China to the high Arctic.
Yifei Jia
As climate change threatens their food supply, migratory birds may find help in an unlikely place.
If the government takes grizzly bears off the Endangered Species List, some states will likely introduce a hunting season.
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Whether people are hunters can have a big effect.
A juvenile hammerhead at Burleigh Beach, watched by snorkellers.
Olaf Meynecke
Young sharks are gathering at a popular beach. Here’s why we should skip our fear response and go for wonder – and protection
Sperm whales are endangered - new measures aim to protect cetaceans like this in the Pacific Ocean.
Erik AJV/Shutterstock
A new treaty could help protect cetaceans in the Pacific, but more needs to be done internationally.
The many-horned adder (Bitis cornuta ) is native to southern Africa.
Graham Alexander
There are 401 indigenous terrestrial reptiles in South Africa.
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Intense heat and no rain in southwest Western Australia are causing widespread tree and shrub die-offs.
Rhett Butler
What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
Photo: Doug Atfield. Special Collections, Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex/Copyright Estate of J.A. Baker
John Alec Baker’s 1967 novel, The Peregrine, recounts the story of a bird over ten winters, but his archive is the story of a very private man.
South Africa’s new biodiversity economy strategy aims to make the benefits from biodiversity available to more people.
Hayley Clements
The strategy aims to conserve biodiversity while also contributing to the creation of jobs and economic growth.
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Even with the best intentions, policies from different government departments can clash.
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Australia committed to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030 when we signed the global biodiversity framework. But what does that really mean? It’s open to interpretation. So let’s be ambitious.
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Many measures commonly thought to reduce the toll of animals injured and killed on our roads aren’t effective. But there is evidence to support other solutions.
Nik Callow
We’ve known about dryland salinity for a century. But while we’ve made progress, the problem hasn’t yet been solved.
Coral bleaching in a shallow lagoon of French Polynesia.
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For decades, conservationists have tried to repopulate dead reefs with corals reared elsewhere.
An endangered yellow-footed rock wallaby.
Joshua Bergmark
Conditions deteriorated in 2023 but were stlil relatively good for ecosystems and agriculture. Unfortunately, the alarming decline of threatened species continued.
Ariana Ananda
Blink and you’ll miss it. The kowari is a charismatic marsupial carnivore that needs our help.
A pine plantation and hedgerow as seen from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Alexandre Changenet, 2023
The SUPERB project, part of the EU’s Horizon programme, aims to restore thousands of hectares of forest landscape across Europe.
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Platypuses are drowning in Australian waterways, tangled in fishing line and trapped in closed nets meant for freshwater crayfish or yabbies. But we can fix this.
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Translocation may have been the key to survival for the eastern barred bandicoot but it might not be the golden ticket for every species.