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Campaigners say designation promotes unsustainable sheep farming at expense of nature recovery and local communitiesConservationists have launched a campaign to revoke the Lake District’s Unesco world heritage status, arguing that it promotes unsustain…
Cutting off the animals’ horns more effective than traditional protection methods such as rangers and costs less, say expertsCutting the horns off rhinos causes a large reduction in poaching, according to a new study, which raises questions about the e…
Infected males produce higher-quality sperm, display brighter throat patches and sire nearly a third more offspringGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe number of critically endangered alpine tree frogs, found only in the Austr…
Exclusive: Tony Juniper, who will oversee nature restoration fund, says claims ‘not fully backed by evidence’The government’s leading environmental adviser has said ministers are wrong to suggest nature is blocking development.Tony Juniper, the chair o…
Environment committee also wants to outlaw dredging and mining due to destructive effects on seabed and marine lifeMinisters must ban bottom trawling for fish in marine protected areas, an influential group of MPs has said, because the destructive prac…
Partha Dasgupta’s landmark study provided way to put a value on nature – but many fear report has been sidelinedRevealed: 5,000 nature sites at risk under Labour’s growth plansTen top jewels endangered by the billBoris Johnson was prime minister and Ke…
Controversial plans could see the slaughter of almost 200 black bears, about 5% of the state’s estimated totalIt’s tough to be a bear in Florida these days, where only a year ago a Republican state congressman was accusing the ursine population of shoo…
Campaign has raised more than £114m since 1965 to protect sites such as Wembury Point in DevonWembury Point has a colourful history. During the 20th century it was transformed from a farm into a bustling holiday camp and then converted into a military …
Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcastThree years after the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira were murde…
Upemba lechwe considered one of world’s rarest large mammals with fewer than 100 thought to remainA photograph of Africa’s “forgotten antelope” has been published for the first time as the elusive creature dives towards extinction.Fewer than 100 Upemba…