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Conservation

18 July 2024

  • A pair of spoonbills and chicks in their nest

    Spoonbills return to Cambridgeshire for first time since 17th century

    Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England
  • Two people stand before a long line of stranded whales on a deserted beach under a grey and cloudy sky

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How to solve a mass stranding: what caused 77 healthy whales to die on a Scottish beach?

    A team of scientists are trying to find the cause of what is becoming an increasingly common event – and the answer may be hidden deep in the whales’ skulls
  • A red-backed shrike

    Weatherwatch
    Varied spring weather in UK brought host of rare migratory birds

    Golden orioles and unprecedented number of red-backed shrikes among species spotted by birders

17 July 2024

  • Graffiti reading 'PCC' is written on a yellow wall in front of a church building

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

  • OrangeRoughypixie

    Orange roughy are at risk from overfishing. But there is money to be made!

  • A small dark fox sits in sunlight on an outcrop covered in plants.

    The age of extinction
    Winning images of the 2024 BigPicture natural world photography competition

  • Photograph: Oneworld Picture/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run – podcast

16 July 2024

  • NSW environment minister Penny Sharpe with a picture of a broad-toothed rat

    NSW government says state’s biodiversity ‘in crisis’ as it pledges first steps to reverse decline

    Government will also overhaul state laws after Guardian Australia uncovered serious problems with biodiversity offsets scheme
  • Tenacious D performing in Manchester earlier this year.

    Australia news live
    Band’s gig postponed amid deportation call – as it happened

    This blog is now closed.
  • A Russell's viper snake coiled on the grass

    Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper

    Misinformation and online rumours stoke fear of the venomous species, which has led to snakes being killed indiscriminately, warn conservationists

15 July 2024

  • A model of an orange roughy

    Fears for threatened orange roughy as NZ super trawler returns to Tasmanian waters

  • A bear crossing a road

    Romania to step up cull of brown bears after hiker killed

  • Aviles Morphy stands among felled trees in the forest

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

  • Two zoo workers stand next to an enclosure with two elephants in it

    The age of extinction
    First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus

14 July 2024

  • A fox standing on a city street

    Outfoxed: the ‘smart’ ferals are adapting to Australian cities, and wreaking havoc in the bush

    It’s not entirely clear if fox numbers are on the rise in urban areas, but research shows they are learning to avoid hazards such as dogs and poisonous baits

12 July 2024

  • Dr Isabel Hyman, a research scientist at the Australian Museum, inside a room full of breeding tanks of Campbell's keeled glass-snail

    How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction

  • New South Wales farmer John Palmer, is a Wires volunteer.

    Wildlife rescue group Wires faces crunch vote amid volunteer discontent over funds raised after bushfires

  • The remains of a pig footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus)

    ‘It’s like looking at ghosts’: inside the Australian Museum’s extinction cabinets

  • Kit eating grass caught on camera at night in a black and white image

    National Trust celebrates birth of baby beaver one year after reintroduction

11 July 2024

  • Green-and-golden bell frogs peek out of round holes in masonry bricks painted dark grey

    The age of extinction
    ‘Frog saunas’ could save species from deadly fungal disease, study finds

    Australian scientists create brick refuges in greenhouses to help green and golden bell frogs survive infection
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