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An international conference on trade in endangered species ended Friday in Panama, with protections established for over 500 species. The measures were approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known by its initials as CITES. The conference agreed to tighten trade regulations…

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brain-teasers for future quizzes

Mammals were downgraded from endangered to threatened in 2017, even as pollution and habitat loss drive starvation

Paris (AFP) - Experts and activists were hoping UN climate talks would end last week with a prominent mention of biodiversity in the final text. They walked away disappointed.

Autumnwatch presenter and naturalist Chris Packham tells the Prime Minister there is nothing more important than protecting the natural world that sustains us

The inventors say this technology could reverse the dramatic decline of endangered sharks around the world.

Decades after the world’s biggest otter disappeared from the country, a kayaking trip revealed a lone male swimming in the Bermejo River

Huntsman spiders are usually found feasting on insects and small reptiles, but on this occasion, an Aussie found a venomous eight-legged critter with an appetite for something furry

The story of Old Blue and Old Yellow, two Chatham Island black robins that went on to save their species, is one of New Zealand’s best known conservation stories.