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From unauthorised species releases to small groups buying up land, ‘guerrilla rewilding’ is going mainstream. But activists worry that some rogue efforts undermine the work of their movement

Government subsidies are helping the fishing industry empty oceans of marine life, smashing ecosystems and hurting coastal communities reliant on fish stocks.

The Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group helped nearly 4,000 toads, frogs and newts across a half-mile stretch of a road during this year’s migration season.

Conservationists are concerned as the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch results for 2025 show the ‘charismatic’ birds sliding down the rankings.

The penguin, placed in a box on a passenger’s lap, slid and struck the pilot’s controls moments after takeoff from Bird Island off the Eastern Cape coast

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”.

“Out of sight, out of mind” is how we often treat what is flushed down our toilets. But the drugs we take, from anxiety medications to antibiotics, don’t simply vanish after leaving our bodies. Many are not fully removed by wastewater treatment systems and end up in rivers, lakes and…

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

Lulu Gribbin and her friend had been diving for sand dollars before the attack