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Conservation

5 April 2025

  • The Biomass probe

    Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests

    Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestation
  • Ronnie Campbell holds a large fishing net and a rod as he stands next to a boat on a loch

    AI scanning helps Scottish conservation project turn tide for flapper skate

    Anglers who campaigned for protected area off Oban and Mull are providing key data on critically endangered species
  • A group of ramblers walking along the South Downs Way, between hedgerows and trees

    ‘An exciting moment’: England’s urban and rural trees mapped for first time

    ‘Groundbreaking’ tool aims to help tree-planting efforts and identify areas to create nature-rich habitats

4 April 2025

  • Iris Newbery meeting Prince Charles in 2004 in the walled garden at Copped Hall, near Waltham Abbey, where she was one of the volunteers helping preserve the site

    Other lives
    Iris Newbery obituary

  • A miniature dachshund

    A lucky rascal or a feral critter that ‘should be euthanised’? Hunt for Valerie the dachshund divides Kangaroo Island

  • A man cutting a fin off a small shark with a knife

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    US ports to use Covid-like tests to identify illegally trafficked seafood species

  • Mount Speke topped with ice.

    Africa’s last glaciers: an expedition to map ice loss in the Rwenzori mountains – in pictures

3 April 2025

  • People work together to build three haystacks on a farm in summer, with tree-covered hills in the background

    The age of extinction
    Big, biodiverse and beautiful: can Romania’s centuries-old giant haystacks survive modern farming?

  • Thumbnails of the invertebrate of the year 2025

    Science Weekly
    ‘Parasites should get more fame’: the nominees for world’s finest invertebrate – podcast

2 April 2025

  • composite images of hand holding seeds and basement with fridge and white box

    Our unequal earth
    I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. Biodiversity and preservation need rethinking

    Chris Smith
  • Laura Holder, Executive Director of Conservation Dogs Collective, with her conservation detection dog, Betty White, search for bumblebee nests in a prairie on August 1, 2023 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. Betty White has been trained to detect bumble bee nests.

    The age of extinction
    The secret to finding one of the most endangered bumblebees in the US? Dogs

  • A butterafly with dark-veined greeny-white wings on a blue flow

    Last summer was second worst for common UK butterflies since 1976

  • £100m bat shelter constructed for HS2

    UK wildlife groups express alarm at plan to ‘streamline’ environmental rules

1 April 2025

  • Kemi Badenoch gestures during a speech

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Kemi Badenoch gives credence to race-swap conspiracy theory about Adolescence but admits she hasn’t watched it – as it happened

    Conservative party leader says she believes show ‘is based on real story’, a claim described as wholly untrue by writer and co-creator of series
  • An elephant reaches up to a tree with its trunk

    The age of extinction
    ‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work

    Hundreds of projects supported by USAID have been thrown into doubt, as fears grow of an increase in crimes such as poaching and trafficking
  • Two giraffes with rock and grass behind

    Chester zoo unveils £28m ‘Africa’ facility – complete with chilly giraffes

    Nine-hectare site home to 57 species including rhino, zebras and ostriches in UK’s biggest such development

March 2025

  • Trump Tariffs Lumber<br>A logging truck stops to be weighed before offering logs at the Milan Lumber Co., Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Milan, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

    Logging is quietly ravaging US forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections

    Jennifer Skene
  • A person walks along a path with trees behind

    ‘A tree zoo’: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetum’s centenary

  • Composite image of Leonardo DiCaprio and endangered Australian animals

    Why does Leonardo DiCaprio care so much about Australian wildlife?

  • European glass eels.

    Export of endangered eels to Russia ends after UK government ban

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