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Britain is a vocal supporter of the global bid to return 30% of land to nature, but its record is dismal. Can it make up lost ground in time?

Despite backing calls to protect 30% of world’s land and sea by 2030, UK has no such target in its own plans

Described as "jewels of the bush", Christmas spiders emerge in prolific numbers across southern Western Australia during the warmer months.

In 2017 extreme drought conditions caused a Bogong moth population crash. There now appears to have been a rebound, but the species remains at risk.

When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many wildlife disease researchers like me were not too surprised. Some were intrigued it hadn’t happened sooner; after all, it is our job to observe, describe and study pandemic dynamics in animals.

Modelling shows that if we continue on current trajectory, global heating will drive a cascade of extinctions in plants and animals

Man commended for bravery after throwing stones to frighten hippo into regurgitating young boy

The 196 countries meeting for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, are negotiating a new set of targets for reversing the loss of Earth’s biodiversity. They have set themselves a formidable challenge: ensuring humanity is “living in harmony with nature” by 2050.

Other lives: Microbiologist who fought to change attitudes to deforestation as a trustee of the World Land Trust