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It’s just past midnight in the cool, ancient forests of Tasmania. We’ve spent a long day and night surveying endangered Tasmanian devils. All around, small animals scurry through bushes. A devil calls in the darkness. Microbats swoop and swirl as a spotted-tailed quoll slips through the shadows. Working here is…

Some enthusiasts have been waiting for hours in New Hythe, Kent, to catch a glimpse of the yellow warbler.

What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya’s capital

Southern right whales regularly live for over a century — a fact that changes the way we need to think about conservation, and age.

Footage shows the mysterious killer whales patrolling a submarine canyon off Monterey, Ca. "There were fins everywhere we looked."

The Desertas Island land snails have been set free to roam on the uninhabited island of Bugio, near Madeira

Call for illicit market to be taken out of hands of criminals as numbers continue to fall drastically due to poaching

Conservationists issue warning as figures show three-quarters of SSSI sites have had no recent assessments

Figures obtained through an Environmental Information Regulations request showed a lack of assessments of SSSIs.