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While crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef have long been ecological villains in the popular imagination, sea urchins have mostly crawled under the national radar – until now.

At the United Nations biodiversity conference that opens in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2022, nations aim to create a new global framework for transforming humanity’s relationship with nature. The conference logo features a human reaching to embrace a panda – but from an ecological perspective, a weasel or badger would…

Editorial: A million animal and plant species are perilously close to extinction. Their fate and ours are intimately connected

An alliance of local and national environment groups have called for a moratorium on land clearing across 810,000 hectares between Barrington Tops and Hawkesbury River.

Painted button-quails have not been spotted on one island at the Abrolhos since 2006, while very few birds are left elsewhere.

Once common in England and Wales, the species was hunted to local extinction about 300 years ago

Abernethy Forest, Cairngorms: Avian flu has reached our biggest bird of prey. How extra special it is to experience their startling grandeur up close

Wildlife experts are hoping for a 'flurry of whale sightings' in the UK over the next few months after humpback whales were spotted along the coast of Cornwall twice this week

With temperatures rising, it’s important to know which spiders can cause problems