A furious row has blown up in the UK’s leading succulent society over the practice of taking desirable specimens from the wild, with the chair…
View More British succulent society chair quits over row about taking specimens from wildTag: Conservation
World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent action to halt environmental destruction, international experts have warned.…
View More World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts‘We found 700 different species’: astonishing array of wildlife discovered in Cambodia mangroves
One of the most comprehensive biodiversity surveys ever carried out in a mangrove forest has revealed that an astonishing array of wildlife makes its home…
View More ‘We found 700 different species’: astonishing array of wildlife discovered in Cambodia mangroves‘The Bermuda triangle for birds’: Hen harriers face threat of grouse season
The sweeping edge of the Pennines at Geltsdale is a cathedral for birdsong on a still spring evening. Everything from thrushes to curlew are calling…
View More ‘The Bermuda triangle for birds’: Hen harriers face threat of grouse seasonA very British butterfly: spectacular swallowtail is built for capricious summers
The swallowtail is Britain’s largest and most spectacular butterfly. Most British butterflies are adapted to surviving gruelling, cold, wet, capricious summers, which is why many…
View More A very British butterfly: spectacular swallowtail is built for capricious summersUN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new biodiversity chief
The next UN biodiversity chief will be Astrid Schomaker, an EU civil servant who will be entrusted with helping the world confront the ongoing catastrophic…
View More UN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new biodiversity chiefIn defence of slugs and moths: the pesky invertebrates Britain loves to hate
Slugs eat our lettuce. Moths eat our jumpers. It seems pretty unlikely that either will win the Guardian’s invertebrate of the year competition, and yet…
View More In defence of slugs and moths: the pesky invertebrates Britain loves to hate‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England
The rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain are a bleak scene of vast arable fields and tightly grazed pasture dotted with scores of sheep. In…
View More ‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern EnglandRare fungus to be moved from Scotland to England in hopes to save species
Fingers of a critically endangered fungus will this week be removed from its last sites in Scotland and fixed to trees in three woodlands in…
View More Rare fungus to be moved from Scotland to England in hopes to save species‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes
In the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom. Punctuated…
View More ‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes