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France’s wildlife is in crisis, but the few species that receive real protection show that long-term, well-funded action can reverse the trend, says the World Wildlife Fund France's annual biodiversity report. The challenge is not a lack of solutions, but a lack of commitment.

Claims of an "infestation" of crocodiles is prompting calls for a cull as part of a management plan of the apex predators and to protect regional communities.

A sturdy type of coral that usually withstands bleaching has been hit hard by a combination of heat stress and a disease rarely seen in the Great Barrier Reef.

Human beings in 7th place out of 35 species on monogamy scale, according to a study by Cambridge University

Conservationist who devoted his life to the study and preservation of the African elephant

Previous research linked disappearance of small-brained species to arrival of homo sapiens

Beavers will also be reintroduced at Eastbrookend Country Park in Dagenham after funding from Sadiq Khan

Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort

Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: I have memories of seeing them at night, on our pyjama-clad safaris round the farm, but they haven’t been here for a decade

Former Perth curator Mark Harvey is one of the few people on Earth to have described 1,000 new species, many of them arachnids. Colleagues say his legacy is ‘unquantifiable’