Outdoor recreation is booming across the US, but research shows that the presence of humans – or the trails they hike and ski on – can have harmful effects on wildlife at less-than-close range.
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Sat-navs could one day warn motorists when they drive through high-risk areas.
Roundup may be taking a beating in the US, where three juries have concluded that it gave plaintiffs cancer, but it's still widely used around the globe.
Venom, size, and speed: these are the factors that determine which ambush predator will emerge victorious. So let's look at the strengths of each arachnid.
Oil spills, cracked buildings and pollution. Just some of the environmental effects of Kenya's massive railway project.
Australia has one of the worst track records in the world for species extinctions. The federal government's proposed changes could weaken our already inadequate environment law.
Audio recordings of the secret lives of the Canada lynx demonstrate the value of technology in monitoring wildlife.
Studying how elephants move can give clues into how they can be better managed to conserve their populations.
The lives of one in ten of Earth's species are connected to lakes and their tributaries.
Australians should see the rainforest as a cultural landscape – one that has been managed and maintained by people, rather than just a relic unchanged since the dinosaurs.
It's hard to preserve national parks "unimpaired," as US law directs, when they're overrun with tourists who stray off paths, strew trash and harass wildlife. A parks scholar calls for crowd control.
Wildfire smoke is both inevitable and largely unpredictable. We need to change our activities and behaviours to limit exposure to wildfire smoke and protect health.
Eating bird food was also linked to a nearly four-fold increase in their breeding densities.
By studying where rewilding has worked well around the world, we've worked out the dos and don'ts.
Timber company VicForests won its appeal last week and logging is set to resume. Let's take a look at the dramatic implications for wildlife and the law.
Nigeria must improve biodiversity awareness among its citizens to stem animal poaching and halt biodiversity loss.
When something is free, people use a lot of it. Economists are urging governments to compute values for natural resources – wildlife, plants, air, water – to create motives for protecting them.
One mammal, the long-tailed planigale, can weigh less than a 10-cent coin. But it's ferocious, bringing down far larger prey with persistent, savage biting to the head and neck
An infrastructure boom threatens endangered tigers across Asia. Scientists want to know more about how tigers behave near roads so they can design wildlife-friendly transportation networks.
Yellow crazy ants are one of the world's worst invasive species. And it turns out they have unique systems of reproduction that make life in the queendom more complicated than we realised.
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Euan Ritchie is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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