In 2001, scientists released beetles to fight an invasive tree. Years later, an endangered bird had lost 94% of its habitat along one western river

The breeding grounds of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher stretch across thousands of kilometres of rivers and streams in the American Southwest, yet much of its habitat has long been difficult to as...

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Research offers nature-positive path to end and reverse biodiversity loss

From its nests high in the canopy of the Amazon, the harpy eagle depends on — and is critical to — the health of the forest around it. The species controls the numbers of animals such as sloths and mo...

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On a windswept Norwegian island, one turbine blade was painted black, and the white tailed eagles stopped dying under the rotors

Dozens of wind turbines stand across its treeless ground, spinning day and night in the salt wind.

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UK could be set to lose Dotterel to climate change

We look at the worrying results of the latest national Dotterel survey. Discover how climate change appears to be a cause of decline.

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Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger

With West Africa’s vulture populations dwindling, poachers are increasingly turning to yellow-billed kites, a medium-sized, extremely adaptable raptor found in nearly every landscape across much of…

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Norway planted millions of North American Sitka spruce after the 1950s to expand timber production along its windswept coast, but scientists now say the trees are invading ancient coastal heathlands, ...

Imagine walking along a rugged coastline where purple heather, moss, and shrubs cover the ground. These open landscapes are more than scenic hiking areas.

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Decline to near extinction of a mountain passerine: the status of the Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus in the Republic of Ireland in 2021

The Ring Ouzel has declined to near extinction on the island of Ireland, with just nine occupied sites recorded during a national survey in 2021, all in County Donegal in north-west Ireland.Little ...

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Estonia's nocturnal songbird populations plummet

The Estonian Ornithological Society is once again inviting bird enthusiasts to take part in its nocturnal songbird census, which helps track the fortunes of bird species that sing at night.

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Estonia's nocturnal songbird populations plummet

The Estonian Ornithological Society is once again inviting bird enthusiasts to take part in its nocturnal songbird census, which helps track the fortunes of bird species that sing at night.

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A Letter To David Attenborough: What the Children Must Also Know - The Wire

Childrens education must include the history of colonial destruction of wildlife and the frequently overlooked conservation wisdom of indigenous communities.

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Cork farmer avoids conviction after woodland wipeout

A North Cork farmer, who was accused of destroying a large area of natural woodland for the purposes of ‘profiteering’, has avoided a conviction at a District Court, but has been forced to pay a furth...

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Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct

Seeds from the last surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree are now stored in Kew Gardens' Millennium Seed Bank as researchers work to find ways to reintroduce the species into the wild.

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Indonesian parrot, seen once in a century, reappears in mountain forest

For the past century, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet was one of Indonesia's most elusive birds, known only from a 2014 photographic record and a handful of ​museum specimens, with a lingering hope that it ...

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‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’

Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining “eternal snow” in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice

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Mapping important areas for global biodiversity

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts

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Britain's protected birds of prey still illegally targeted – RSPB

The charity says more than half of attacks happened on or near land managed for game shooting.

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David Attenborough turned 100 last week — and his oldest argument against space exploration is the same conclusion most astronauts come home with

In October 1980, on Ireland’s Late Late Show, Gay Byrne asked David Attenborough what he made of the search for life beyond Earth. Attenborough was 54 then, well into what would become a seven-decade ...

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Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can't sing at their natural pitch

When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic "Silent Spring" in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might create a silent future.

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Eighteen wolves found dead in Italian national park in suspected poisoning

Criminal investigation under way after carcasses found across Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise national park within a week

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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?

The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

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Breeding Bird Survey 2025: record coverage but alarming declines

The latest Breeding Bird Survey results show mixed fortunes for the UK's birds, with Collared Dove among the most notable losers.

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Seventeen Mammals, One Strangler Fig — A Hidden Network Discovered

High in the canopy, in the branches of fig trees, scientists have discovered a previously unknown hub of communication between species.

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