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Modelled on the Climate Council, the body says it will be a ‘strong and trusted voice’ backed by science including First People’s knowledge

"They [DAERA] don’t have a Biodiversity Strategy which was supposed to be delivered in 2020 and the last one failed on the majority of its targets"

As countries prepare to negotiate a new global agreement to protect Earth's environment, the head of the United Nations warned there was no time to lose.

Around 18% of land is legally protected for nature but in many areas the measures are not working, a hard-hitting environmental report found.

While crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef have long been ecological villains in the popular imagination, sea urchins have mostly crawled under the national radar – until now.

Paris (AFP) - Restoring islands devastated by invasive species and helping coastal "connectors" like seabirds boosts nature on land and at sea -- and may be a new way to increase resilience to climate change, researchers said Monday. 

At the United Nations biodiversity conference that opens in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2022, nations aim to create a new global framework for transforming humanity’s relationship with nature. The conference logo features a human reaching to embrace a panda – but from an ecological perspective, a weasel or badger would…

Scientists, conservationists and government representatives will gather this week in Montreal to decide on a plan to stop a stunning loss of plant and animal life around the globe. The United Nations' COP15 — a conference on biological diversity — offers a rare chance for countries to set mutual commitments…

The animals had likely died of natural causes a couple of weeks ago, officials said

Researchers have realised the long-lost remains of the last-known thylacine have in fact been in the collection of a Tasmanian museum.

An island where 80 per cent of turtle hatchlings are born female is more of a level playing field when it comes to breeding than researchers initially feared.