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Conservation

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

24 July 2024

  • A bee on a flower

    Revealed: Tories failed to do impact check before approving banned pesticide

    Exclusive: UK campaigners say it is ‘unacceptable’ no nature assessments were made on bee-killing Cruiser SB

23 July 2024

  • The greater glider

    Australia’s environment could be fixed and threatened species saved for just 0.3% of GDP, experts say

    Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists estimates $7.3bn a year for 30 years could avoid most extinctions, repair soils and restore rivers
  • An elderly man with white hair and a beard being led in handcuffs by an official

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’

    Allies of the 73-year-old anti-whaling activist Paul Watson have said that prison time would amount to a ‘life sentence’
  • A boy touches a baby giraffe in western Kenya

    From the agencies
    Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictures

    In western Kenya, wild giraffes are being relocated to the Ruko Conservancy to maintain peace between the Pokot and Ilchamus communities

22 July 2024

  • Trees in dense forest

    Australia’s major food companies failing nature, report finds

    Targets to halt environmental damage ‘severely lacking’, Australian Conservation Foundation says, urging food industry to ‘step up to the plate’

21 July 2024

  • Gillyflower Golf course in Losthwithiel, Cornwall

    How golf courses preserve vanishing habitats

    Letters: Kevin Murphy and Phil Dowell respond to a reader’s suggestion that golf courses are land that’s wasted
  • Geoffrey Lean

    How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction

    Geoffrey Lean
    The Flow Country is to gain Unesco world heritage status years after the area was being destroyed in a tax break scheme, and thanks to campaigners, Nigel Lawson – and this newspaper
  • A bat and a moth

    Where are all the bats? – alarm as numbers fall in England

    Decline blamed on washout summer driving down population of insects, butterflies and moths they feed on

19 July 2024

  • Endangered Greater Glider pokes his head out of their den during a night spotting exercise.

    ‘Cutest animal in Australia’: keeping watch over greater gliders in a forest targeted for logging

    Den trees used by the endangered species are off-limits to loggers so campaigners – among them former Treasury head Ken Henry and MP Sophie Scamps – register them to save them
  • A large field under a cloudy grey sky

    ‘Some absolute gems’: £1.5m appeal to save rewilding haven Strawberry Hill

    Crowdfunding aims to protect central England’s largest area of scrubland in heart of intensively farmed Bedfordshire
  • Two Arab men carry a crate of fish up a beach, as others wade into the sea to unload the catch from a fishing boat

    DIY artificial reefs are boosting fish numbers in Yemen. But there’s a catch

    Fishers have revived a traditional practice of building ‘scrap’ reefs to attract fish but are using plastic and tyres instead of rocks and branches, and not everyone is happy

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
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