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Scientists find last irrefutable sighting of the slender-billed curlew was in February 1995 in Morocco

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction due to climate change, a new report said on Wednesday. This marked a significant increase from the last assessment in 2008, when a third of all species was listed as threatened.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature said hedgehog numbers are thought to have shrunk in more than half the countries where they live.

Why have Atlantic salmon populations dropped so dramatically in British rivers, and is fish farming to blame?

Tanya Plibersek claims Labor is protecting 52% of its ocean territory, but experts say that is ‘misleading’

British high commissioner backs plan to shoot scores of endangered animals but conservationists warn of ‘dangerous precedent’

Across Australia and around the world, citizen scientists are protecting species by recording sightings, surveying landscapes and collecting samples. No job is too big or too small. As wildlife ecologists, we are indebted to this army of volunteers.

In March 2023, temperatures in eastern Senegal soared to 40°C, with the cooling rains still months away. Yet, for the dedicated field team from the NGO Panthera – committed to global feline conservation – and the Direction des parcs nationaux du Sénégal (DPN) (Senegal National Parks team), led by Mouhamadou…

Animals are disappearing too fast for researchers to record all of the extinctions we've caused.