Biodiversity

Articles

Status of endangered large prey predators following civil unrest in a...

Ceballos, G. et al. Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: entering the sixth mass extinction. Sci. Adv. 1, 1400253 (2015).ADS  ...
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Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the...

About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into...
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Australia’s government is pledging better protection for our vulnerable seas – but...

Ahead of this week’s crucial United Nations ocean conference, federal Environment Minister Murray Watt promised that by 2030, 30%...
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Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity...

Since the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was opened for signature in 1992 (ref. 1), three sequential decadal plans have been adopted to...
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Hedgehog poo could hold important secrets about local biodiversity

Biodiversity, the rich variety of life found on Earth, is vanishing. I’m a conservation scientist keen to monitor this...
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As livestock numbers grow, wild animal populations plummet. Giving all creatures...

As a teenager in the 1970s, I worked on a typical dairy farm in England. Fifty cows grazed on...
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