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Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations.
When did you last see a glow worm? Most likely, quite some time ago. Depending on how young you are, you may have never seen one at all. Those light-emitting insects, Wordsworth’s “earthborn stars”, have been declining in the UK for decades. That means that scientists now see them in fewer place ...
5 - 9 September 2005, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
17 - 22 November 2008, Cancun, Mexico
16 - 19 May 2006, Astrakan, Russian Federation
4 - 8 December 2023, Nairobi, Kenya
A partnership of organisations and universities in the UK and Grenada has launched a new project looking into the challenges and threats facing two endangered marine species.
The rarest, most endangered species get the most attention—but common species need help, too. Spurred by dismaying declines of once-abundant insects and birds, this principle is gaining traction in conservation circles. Now a study of plants in northeast Germany, where species abundant just a co ...
At sunset every day, an almost deafening sound from the sky can be heard in a community just east of Los Angeles. It is the sound of parrots that have become a familiar part of life here.
The sandy shores of the Tyre nature reserve on the Mediterranean are home to several endangered turtle species. But after an oil spill off the Israeli coast early last month, beaches in southern Lebanon were also washed away by tar deposits.
It took less than one century for humans to wipe out 50 million years of evolution on New Zealand.Long before people arrived in New Zealand, it was dominated by multitudes of unique birds. They were absolutely everywhere: big birds, little birds, colorful birds, flightless birds. In the absence ...
The World Wildlife Fund has just released its 2018 Living Planet Report. Humans have wiped out 60 percent of animals between 1970 and 2014. The figures contained in the report are just a few symptoms of the dire state the planet is in.
February 10, 2022 is the first Arabian Leopard Day and it’s one of several initiatives to help save this critically endangered species from extinction.
Our natural earth is dying. It is on the brink of collapse. Due to human impacts the planet is losing species – its biodiversity – at a rate so alarming it’s said to be comparable to the 5th mass extinction 65 million years ago, bringing the era of the dinosaurs to an end. Just 15% of the world’ ...
Knowledge of the Philippine pangolin, the only pangolin species in the country, is scant. Sightings of the animal are rarer still. But unlike other pangolin species around the world that teeter on the brink of extinction, a new study suggests that with the appropriate conservation measures, the ...
Eaten worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Japan, where it’s prepared ‘kabayaki’ style: skewered, grilled and basted in soy sauce and mirin rice wine. But wild eel stocks are dwindling because of pollution and overfishing, and poaching and international trafficking are also having a major i ...
7 - 10 June 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
22 July 2017, Geneva, Switzerland
From the red-eared slider turtle, cockatoo and falcon to the yellow-cheeked gibbon, capuchin monkey and orangutan, nothing is too much for those demanding unusual pets in India.
The black rhino, mountain bongo, roan antelope and sable antelope have been classified as critically endangered species in Kenya.
With fewer than a thousand breeding pairs in Europe and a tiny remnant population in the European Union, Greater Spotted Eagle is listed as Critically Endangered.
As conservationists and campaigners thrash out wildlife trade rules, a debate rages over whether trophy hunting helps or hinders the protection of endangered species.
From the orangutans that lived undisturbed for 700,000 years to the frolicking rhesus macaques of Kathmandu, the BBC’s new nature blockbuster brings us closer than ever to the planet of the apes.
Trapped on island habitats made smaller by rising seas, Indonesia's Komodo dragons were listed as endangered on Saturday, in an update of the wildlife Red List that also warned overfishing threatens nearly two-in-five sharks with extinction.
Vulture populations across Africa and some parts of the world have seen a steady decline for decades with certain species such as the white-backed vulture listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the same threat level as the black rhino, and a co ...
The Trump administration is eroding protections for America’s endangered species. Here are five species under threat in the age of Trump.
A plan to return federally endangered California condors to a rugged and remote stretch of Northern California coastline and redwood forests is taking shape on Yurok tribal lands where the Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean.
Once the most commonly spotted bee in the United States, the American bumblebee has nearly disappeared from 16 states. But thanks to some law students and their professor, the important pollinator may earn protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct – even as authorities brace for many more weeks of fires.
A 58-page, undated “vision document” for the “sustainable development” of the Little Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal was produced by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, a think tank of the Government of India.
The Elephant Research and Conservation (ELRECO), a conservation project with support from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, has released a research report on Forest Elephants in Liberia putting existing forest elephants between 350 and 450.
Conservationists using camera traps have obtained evidence that shows mona monkeys on the island of Príncipe off Central Africa are pinching the eggs of the Príncipe thrush, a critically endangered species whose entire population is estimated at less than 250.
A list of endangered and scheduled species found in Jharkhand will be displayed at public places like railway stations, airport and bus stands to check crime against wild animals, forest officials said on Thursday.
The Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia Programme (WCS Cambodia) said it was delighted to see 19 Royal Turtle eggs in a single clutch on an artificial sand bank at the Koh Kong Reptile Conservation Centre (KKRCC) in one night last week.
From Venetian canals running clear, to herds of goats roaming around Llandudno, Wales, there have been claims of nature’s comeback since the start of lockdown. But recently, staff at the Meltham Wildlife Reserve in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, reported the arrival of a red kite that was found to b ...
A new research centre is being set up to study the endangered animals’ habitat, behaviour and genetics
Canada risks losing its polar bears in the North. And many runs of Chinook salmon on the Southern West Coast. And the black ash tree , currently widespread from Manitoba to Newfoundland.
The critically endangered Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) plays a unique role in dispersing seeds in Southeast Asian forests, and its disappearance from these landscapes is already affecting the composition of the forests.
Writers and activists including Emma Thompson, Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh are to speak about their favourite endangered animals as part of a remembrance day for lost species.
The world's rare chameleon, lost to science, has been found clinging to life in a Malawian forest patch. At only 5.5 centimetres' or 2.1 inches) long, the critically endangered Chapman's pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum) lives in the low-elevated rainforest of the Malawi Hills.
Malayan tigers will go extinct in the next five to 10 years if no drastic action is taken to address its population decline, said Taiping Zoo and Night Safari director Dr Kevin Lazarus.
The Sumatran rhino is now officially extinct in Malaysia, with the death of the last known specimen.
A new commercial fishing law passed in Mozambique enacts protections for several threatened species, including whale sharks, manta rays, and all mobula species. The new legislation went into effect on January 8th. This victory comes after 20 years of research and lobbying efforts by the Marine M ...
Human appetites are pushing makos and other iconic sharks to the brink of extinction, scientists warned in a new assessment of the apex predator's conservation status.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the conservation status of wild animals and plants, announced Thursday that Masai giraffes, a subspecies spread throughout Kenya and Tanzania, are now endangered, primarily because of poaching and changes in land use.
A recently published study on the a new method of measuring avian extinction rates has highlighted that conservation projects are working, but also how threats of extinction are accumulating more quickly than previously thought.
Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced to parts of England in an attempt to reverse their decline.
Should the decline of Mediterranean Shearwater colonies keep their current rhythm, the reproductive population of this seabird could be reduced by more than 30% over the next fifty years. This seabird, mostly distributed over the western Mediterranean, is listed as vulnerable in the UICN Red lis ...
Najin and Fatu are the only two rhinos of their species in existence. Jack Davison visited Ol Pejeta in Kenya to document a story that transcends tragedy
5 - 7 October 2009, Brasilia, Brazil