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Conservation

August 2024

  • A fox runs through flames

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a feisty sea lion, a retiring elephant and a fleeing fox

  • A woman and five girls in formal dress standing in a line waving

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Sea change: How the Herring Queen brought promise and joy to a small Scottish town

  • A marsh fritillary at Helman Tor

    Cornish conservation charity launches major ‘Tor to Shore’ rewilding project

  • Fin whale

    Australian government ‘deeply disappointed’ by Japan’s decision to expand commercial whaling target list

31 July 2024

  • An illustration of seeds on the moon

    Scientists propose lunar biorepository as ‘backup’ for life on Earth

  • A female glow-worm in the grass at Seacombe, near the village of Worth Matravers

    ‘There’s nothing else like it’: Dorset glow-worm survey charms volunteers

  • Abbeyleix peat bog, County Laois, Ireland

    Country diary
    Country diary: Pine martens, dragonflies … this scarred peat bog is healing

  • Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration in Germany, on May 23, 2012

    Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years’ prison in Japan if convicted

30 July 2024

  • Woodland on the North Downs near Abinger Hammer, Surrey: tall, ancient trees line a track. Autumn leaves have fallen but many green and orange leaves are still on the trees; the light shines through them.

    Goals to stop decline of nature in England ‘off track’, report warns

    Audit of Environmental Improvement Plan finds it inadequate as government announces overhaul of goals
  • Elephant Mother Press publicity film still

    Elephant Mother review – sensitive animal documentary with a happy ending

    Conservationist Lek Chailert helps elephants recover from gruelling working lives in Thailand with joviality and grit in this engaging film
  • Closeup of small fish caught in a net

    Scottish trawler owner could lose state subsidies over Irish fishing incident

    Charity says case is significant test of government’s willingness to uphold fishing conservation policies

29 July 2024

  • A long thin atoll around a lagoon

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

    Marking a pivotal moment for the fate of the barely known ecosystems on the ocean floor, 168 nations will decide this week who will head the International Seabed Authority

27 July 2024

  • Fish and colourful coral on the Scott Reef in north-western Australia

    The other petrostates
    Australia’s north-west reefs teem with life – but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion

  • A woman sitting on a bench among trees in autumn

    What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition

26 July 2024

  • A landscape image of the blanket bog with sections of water underneath

    Northern Scotland’s Flow Country becomes world heritage site

    Planet’s largest blanket bog is first peatland to be designated by Unesco after 40-year campaign
  • Bottlenose dolphins diving in and out of the water in Scotland

    Wildlife enthusiasts called on to help record dolphins and whales on UK coast

    National Whale and Dolphin Watch organisers say data collected will help with research into marine mammals
  • Close up of a saltwater crocodile's eye in the Mangroves

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures

    From an unexpected glimpse of a silky anteater to a tagged terrapin, here is a selection of this year’s winning, runner-up and commended images from the 2024 Mangrove photography awards, run by the Mangrove Action Project

25 July 2024

  • A young black woman with a pangolin sitting on her shoulder smiles at the camera

    The age of extinction
    ‘They are so handsome’: the unusual day in the life of a pangolin carer

    At a wildlife centre in Mozambique, trafficked animals are fed, nursed, taken for walks and eventually released back to the wild. Vet Mércia Ângela describes what it’s like to bond with these rare and charismatic mammals
  • Cattle on a farm in Para state, Brazil.

    Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon

    Brazil court freezes assets of Dirceu Kruger to pay climate compensation for illegal deforestation
  • One of the largest elephant in in the world. Craig the super tusker just outside Amboseli national park in Kenya.

    Science Weekly
    Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand? - podcast

    A series of super tusker elephant killings has sparked a bitter international battle over trophy hunting and its controversial, often counterintuitive role in conservation. Biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston speaks to Amy Dickman, professor of wildlife conservation at the University of Oxford, about why this debate has become so divisive, and the complexities of allowing killing in conservation
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