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India has immense human resources and immense challenges. The IUCN World Conservation Congress in 2025 in Abu Dhabi will bring together 10-15k delegates from 160 countries to discuss global conservation issues, and India can help shape the agenda. India's diverse membership and tech infrastructure can help address challenges like biodiversity…

Britain is regularly visited by the ocean’s second largest fish and several other sizeable sharks

Red sanders is a native and endemic to India and can only be found in the Southern parts of the Eastern Ghats. It is a small tree that grows to 5-8 meters in height with a trunk 50-150 cm diameter.

Plantation owners in the Borneo state of Sabah are setting aside land for conservation but some remain sceptical.

"To make matters worse, many of the animal species that are thought to be non-threatened from extinction, are in fact progressively declining"

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast looked at population trends in over 71,000 species

As the cliffside habitats of the gull come under increasing pressure, artificial nest sites are being built to help the gulls adapt

Saving endangered species is an uphill battle in Australia, the mammal extinction capital of the world. But the first step, threatened species listing, can be confusing, tedious and time-consuming.

The Vjosa River in Albania teems with more than 1,000 species, while rare vultures and Balkan lynx visit its banks. It has seen off the threat of a surge in barriers, but the shadow of development persists

Albania's government has formally designated the Vjosa River and its tributaries a national park, starting with an investment of some $80 million (75 million euros) to stop wastewater being poured into the river

A project with outdoor gear company Patagonia and NGOs will protect the Vjosa, one of the continent’s last free-flowing waterways