Wildlife
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Other lives: Naturalist whose books inspired thousands to explore northern England and Scotland
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Presence of manmade chemicals in most remote place on planet shows nowhere is safe from human impact, say scientists
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Helicopters transport 16 of the large mammals to site in Alberta as scheme restores once-dominant grazers to ecosystem
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Climate change is threatening about 700 endangered species and policymakers must act urgently to lessen impact
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Letters: To date we have only mapped 20% of all known species, with invertebrates and the “small things” being the most elusive
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About 650 pilot whales beached themselves at top of South Island, with 350 dying but others either swimming away or refloated by volunteers
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Order for 60-day pause on regulations not yet implemented includes protection for endangered rusty patched bumblebee, which experts say is near extinction
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A tiger family drinking at the watering hole, a nightingale and a snake that plays dead are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Do you like pangolins or silky sharks? How about the black-legged kittiwake? Vote for your favourite in the Wildscreen Arkive’s Valentine’s Day campaign to help protect underappreciated species from poaching and climate change
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Country diary: Warblington, Hampshire By associating with large ungulates, these birds can obtain up to 50% more food using two-thirds of the energy required for lone foraging
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Dozens of volunteers form a barrier in Golden Bay in an effort to prevent more whales from stranding themselves after hundreds died there on Thursday night
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Urgent plea issued for locals to drop work and school commitments and head to the remote beach to save surviving whales
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Experts say decline to coverage of only 7.19 acres of forest could be due to late winter storms last year that knocked down more than 100 acres of trees
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Elephant conservation Ivory is not beautiful, it’s barbaric
Nicky CampbellI grew up with a piano in my bedroom, but now the thought of ivory fills me with revulsion. The UK needs to impose a total ban on the trade of elephant tusks
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A 1.5m-long carpet python manages to regurgitate an entire tennis ball after it was found swollen in a residential yard
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Company founder has urged Utah governor to stop trying to undo the decision by former president Obama to create the Bears Ears National Monument
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Letters: We ask people to create 13cm square gaps in the bottom of their boundary fences and walls to join up usable habitat
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Elephant conservation 如果你是一头大象……
Charles Foster/作者: 查尔斯.福斯特拥有超乎人类理解范围的敏锐感官、清晰的“自我”意识、严格的母系社会……大象的世界看起来比人类的精彩得多!《化身为兽》的作者写道。(翻译:金艳/chinadialogue) -
The dorado catfish travels 11,600km from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon and back, but is threatened by dams and mining
Country diary Birds of prey lock in combat