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Australia is allowing a foreign super trawler to harvest a threatened fish species off Tasmania, amid serious concerns about a population crash.

It was first thought the species could be extinct

Ravenscraig, North Lanarkshire: A place once of coke ovens and cooling towers is now enlivened with orchids and stonecrop, and swards of grasses

In Queensland’s northern reaches lie the Wet Tropics, spanning about 450 kilometres between Townsville and Cooktown. These mountainous rainforests are a relic of the ancient continent of Gondwana, dating back million of years when Australia and parts of Antarctica were covered in rainforest.

This isn’t down to one wet, cold British spring but a disturbing longer-term decline in Britain’s insects. Thankfully, we can help, says the campaigner Tony Juniper

Scientists fear adaptations to global heating may leave some species struggling to mate successfully

Donations grew dramatically after Australia’s black summer but animal carers say they didn’t receive enough

When people encounter the cabinets cataloguing the mammals wiped out since colonisation, they often cry. But what is the most useful way to grieve the destruction of a species?

Four animals released in Wallington estate in Northumberland last year have transformed the landscape

The opening lines of an ancient song, The Song of Amergin, translate to “I am wind on ocean, I am swelling wave, I am roar of sea”. Believed to be the first poem in the Irish language, it reminds us of our interdependence with all life. How we have been…

Nine seals have so far tested positivefor the disease