カテゴリー: Conservation
Ambitious $2.8m scheme hopes to eliminate damaging species from ecologically significant Rakiura/Stewart IslandNew Zealand conservationists are embarking on the largest attempt ever made to eradicate introduced predators from an inhabited island.Manaak…
From Montana’s prairies to Kazakhstan’s steppes, vast tracts of land are being enriched. Here’s how to witness those changesRead more in our Wild world seriesMozambique’s civil war (1977-1992) and the poaching connected to it decimated wildlife in Goro…
An on-call team at Amritsar’s tree hospital nurses sick neems and gives new life to troubled banyansSahib Singh clambers up a portable ladder, reaches out and, with the help of a few tools, tugs at the banyan tree and successfully removes it. The uproo…
Illegal logging is robbing Indians of food, medicine and even saffron to dye monks’ robes. Now local people are fighting backIn the pitch dark, the volunteers walk for hours along roads surrounded by dense forest. They patrol in near silence, listening…
Abandoned marsupials and other trafficked species reveal the country’s growing illegal trade, driven by a desire for exclusive and costly status symbolsFrom the red-eared slider turtle, cockatoo and falcon to the yellow-cheeked gibbon, capuchin monkey …
Meditative documentary All That Breathes is about two brothers’ devotion to protecting black kites against a backdrop of pollution and violence in DelhiThe award-winning documentary All That Breathes is a meditation on life in Delhi through the eyes an…
Shaji NM has devoted his life to collecting and farming tubers such as yam, cassava and taro, and promoting them across the countryKnown as “the tuber man of Kerala”, Shaji NM has travelled throughout India over the past two decades, sometimes inspecti…
Excited visitors take part in nightly tours after conservationists reintroduce speciesThe nature guides are waiting outside a Taiwanese fried sausage shop on the outskirts of Taipei, easily identified by their quick-dry clothing, microphones, and lamin…
Revenue brought in by westerners hunting markhor, ibex and wild sheep is being used to conserve the elusive big cat and provide income for villages in the mountainous regionThere are few mammals that capture our imagination more than the rare and elusi…
Global heating speeding up their decline as terrain of newly discovered alpine species disappears Six new alpine species of New Zealand’s most unusual and beloved insect – the wētā – have been discovered, but it is a bittersweet victory, with another …
Report from Shoal on 2021’s newly described species shows ‘there are still hundreds and hundreds more freshwater fish scientists don’t know about yet’Scientists are celebrating 212 “new” freshwater fish species, including a blind eel found in the groun…
Yoga guru will visit dozens of countries en route from London to India to raise awareness of plight of one of nature’s greatest resourcesOne of India’s best-known spiritual leaders is embarking on a 100-day motorbike journey from London to India to ra…
A group of sea life enthusiasts is documenting a wealth of species thriving in the shadow of India’s most populous city, from glowing coral to octopusesA hidden forest of algae sponges and hydroids photographed at low tide; a stunning night image of gr…
Unique colony of blue whales increasingly at risk from tankers and container ships, say marine campaignersScientists and conservation groups are calling for one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes to be rerouted in an effort to protect the world’s la…
Small man-made homes for the endangered wētā, which can weigh as much as a sparrow, are popping up in gardens across the countryIn a tiny motel at the back of a Wellington garden, a group of lodgers with shiny cigar-shaped bodies and spiny legs are mak…