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Conservation

January 2025

  • A picture of concentric circles of dead birds arranged according to size and colour, with the largest in the centre.

    The age of extinction
    Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows

  • A wolf in Sweden

    Sweden begins wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s population

  • A guna makes fake wooden guns for the children of the island to play in the battle against the conquistadors.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘In 10 years we may cease to exist’: rising seas and influx of tourists threaten to engulf Panama island

    The Guna community has fought for survival for centuries. But modern threats are testing their cultural resilience
  • Aerial view of a container filled with illegally obtained wild bird eggs seized by Essex police, UK

    The age of extinction
    Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history

    Part of an international initiative to combat organised wildlife crime, similar seizures in Australia and Norway have recovered more than 50,000 eggs
  • A pair of rhinos standing side by side

    ‘We have to change our attitude’: wildlife expert says rhino horn trade must be legalised

  • Tree branches overhang reedbeds

    English wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny

  • An elephant

    Take a walk on the wild side with the environment quiz of 2024

  • A view of an Atlantic oak woodland at Piles Copse, Dartmoor, Devon.

    Chelsea flower show garden to champion Britain’s endangered rainforests

  • An Arctic tern

    National Trust records ‘alarming’ drop in insects and seabirds at its sites

    Charity says unstable weather patterns caused by the climate crisis had a ‘devastating impact’ in 2024
  • A doe and two fawns run across a soya bean field

    The alternatives
    ‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers

    Strips of native plants on as little as 10% of farmland can reduce soil erosion by up to 95%
    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish

    • UK churchyards are havens for rare wildlife, finds conservation charity

    • The age of extinction
      They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?

  • Five people cluster around a large dolphin-like whale on a beach as breakers crash against the shore

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Dissecting the world’s rarest whale – in pictures

    Conservationists and scientists in New Zealand were astonished to find the world’s rarest whale washed ashore in the South Island in July. This month saw the first dissection of a complete specimen
  • Chris Howes

    Other lives
    Chris Howes obituary

    Other lives: Traditional cast ironwork expert and waterways enthusiast who strove to improve his local Fenland community
  • Climate protesters rally in Sydney

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    How to teach climate change so 15-year-olds can act

    OECD’s Pisa program will measure the ability of students to take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the global world’
    • Water voles bounce back in key areas but distribution across UK declines

    • Uncontacted people
      ‘They knew that we were here’: following in the footsteps of the uncontacted Pardo River Kawahiva people

    • The age of extinction
      Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer

  • A Southern right whale and calf

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    One in 10 southern right whales alive in 1893 could have still been swimming today, study finds

    Researchers say species is second-longest living mammal on Earth after bowhead whales
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