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Conservation

3 May 2025

  • a bear on one side of glass with a crowd of people, including many children, on the other

    A grizzly bear comeback in California? An old dream gets new legs

    A feasibility report using historical maps and ecological data is raising excitement: ‘It would be a slow process’

2 May 2025

  • Buffel is a highly valued pasture species in Queensland, Australia

    The rural network
    Buffel kerfuffle: should the invasive grass be listed as a weed of national significance in Australia?

  • Close-up of lesser sand eels on seaweed

    UK sand eel fishing ban remains in place despite EU legal challenge

  • An ecologist stands in a river taking a water sample in a bucket.

    ‘Irreplaceable habitat’: planning bill raises fears for England’s chalk streams

  • New homes under construction in Windsor, Berkshire

    Labour’s planning bill threatens protected habitats, says environment watchdog

  • The age of extinction
    Sand groomers v turtles: how wildlife is falling foul of the demand for Insta-perfect beaches

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Capercaillies need peace to survive, let’s give it to them

1 May 2025

  • the face of a black and white owl with an open beak and yellow eyes

    The age of extinction
    Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research

    Study using citizen data finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived
  • Julian Carnell looks out at the landscape

    Nature nurture: the Devon estate where rewilding and mental health go hand in hand

    A restoration project at Sharpham near Totnes aims to tackle the loss of the natural world while helping people build mental resilience
  • David Attenborough standing in front of white cliffs on the coast

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

    The celebrated presenter warns of ‘modern day colonialism at sea’ as he highlights the destruction caused by overfishing and bottom trawling

30 April 2025

  • Meadow rich in colourful red poppies providing seeds for birds and flowers for insects

    Planning and infrastructure bill is not a ‘great nature sellout’

    Letter: Mary Creagh MP responds to a piece by George Monbiot and says the bill is a win-win for people and for nature recovery
  • Lawrence Ball of Kent Wildlife Trust using the Bugs Matter app.

    ‘Alarming’ bug splat decline on UK cars raises fears for flying insect numbers

    Annual survey of numberplates from more than 25,000 journeys reveals 63% fall in squashed bugs since 2021
  • Purple emperor butterfly on oak leaf basking with wings open.

    Butterflywatch
    Butterflywatch: UV torches aid monitoring of rare and elusive species

    Conservation groups count glow-in-the-dark caterpillars and chrysalises which are hard to spot in daylight

29 April 2025

  • Zack Polanski and Catherine Read stand outside a cottage speaking to Steve Traveller, who is alongside a ladder

    ‘It’s an existential moment’: Greens take on Reform in fight for fed-up voters

    Party hopes ‘green patriotism’ will help it win seats in true-blue areas such as Wiltshire in this week’s local elections

28 April 2025

  • Lynx in Białowieża national park

    The age of extinction
    The missing lynx: how the rise of border walls has split up wildlife populations

    In an age of growing hostility to migrants, there are 10 times more barriers on borders than when the Berlin Wall fell. But as well as the human cost, animals are unintended victims
  • a fast flowing river

    Book of the day
    Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness

    An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure
  • A person walking downhill at Grey Mare's Tail Nature Reserve near Moffat, Scotland.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1975: A green tide is rising rapidly from the valleys

    26 April 1975: I dare say some boffin will soon invent a super grass that will flourish on peaty moorlands where now only heather survives

27 April 2025

  • Corflute signs for different political parties outside a voting booth

    The big issues Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton aren’t talking about this election

    From bad airline service to the once election-deciding future of the NBN, Labor and the Coalition have been notably silent on some key policy areas
  • fish swimming around coral underwater

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Trump order to loosen fishing regulations poses major risks, experts warn

    Conservationists fear fallout from president’s proclamation on fishing in federally protected area of Pacific Ocean
  • Josh Mulvaney and Chantelle Geissler, project officers, Kangaroo Island Landscape Board feral cat eradication program, inspect the fence. Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia. 7 April, 2025.

    Drones, AI and one long fence: Kangaroo Island’s war on a clawed predator that kills 1.5bn Australian animals a year

    Feral cats are a menace to wildlife but South Australia’s KI has taken a stand in a bold eradication program that is now at a critical point
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