Wildlife
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Centres, which rely on thousands of volunteers and are described as ‘eyes and ears’ of natural world, told contract ending early
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 11 March 1916: From end to end the sky was as if it was being warmed over a thousand dying fires
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How many Sumatran orangutans are there? More than we thought but fewer than there were.
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Researchers find Sumatran orangutans living at higher altitudes but critically endangered status unlikely to change
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It was amazing to see the comments roll in, from friends and strangers, saying, ‘I can’t believe you missed that, Greg’
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Camera-shy gorillas, the world’s biggest owl and grey-shanked doucs are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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US federal government says recovery of national park population to more than 700 is a ‘historic success’ but conservationists say move is premature
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Administration has put resources into finding and prosecuting poachers and agreed with China to place mutual restrictions on the import of ivory
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Jonathan Slaght has dedicated his professional life to safeguarding the rare Blakiston’s fish owl, the world’s biggest owl. But he wouldn’t have it any other way
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Greenpeace finds suppliers of cod to Birds Eye, Findus and Young’s are using controversial bottom trawlers in the northern Barents Sea
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Colonies found by Victorian government but conservationists say sightings ‘don’t change anything on the ground’
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Yury Fedotov: We need to act now to stop the poaching and trafficking driving many species towards extinction. This means increased penalties for criminals as well as reducing demand
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Organisers hope march from the capital to the heritage-listed mangrove forest will persuade Bangladesh’s government to drop backing for the power plants
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Australian National University researchers have reintroduced wild eastern quolls from Tasmania into a Canberra sanctuary
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Appeals court rules designation of area larger than California not arbitrary but Alaska senator ‘enraged’ by move likely to forestall potential oil drilling
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Guardian Environment Network Fish poachers push Mexico's endangered porpoises to brink of extinction
China’s lucrative black market for fish parts is threatening the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal. The porpoises, who live only in the Gulf of California, are getting caught up as bycatch in illegal gill nets and killed, reports Yale Environment 360 -
We asked you to share your February pictures of the wildlife around the world wherever you are. Here’s a selection of our favourites
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Specialist body tackling wildlife crime was set to close at the end of March but has been awarded four years’ worth of funding
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Notebook Are they still afraid of the big bad wolf in Finland?
Patrick BarkhamThe animals are being slaughtered – yet other European nations are able to live alongside lupines. It seems hunters don’t want to give up their total control of the countryside -
The city of Salem is firing its goat squad tasked with eradicating invasive species after the animals ate the native vegetation, too
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Letters: Hedgehog Street is calling for gaps at the bottom of boundary fences and walls to enable hedgehogs to move through the landscape
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Washing infected frogs in an anti-fungal drug bath reduced mortality rate and extended lifespan of population, and could buy valuable time to save species from extinction, research shows
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Fewer than a third of Britons spotted a hedgehog in their gardens last year
Solar farms to create natural habitats for threatened British species