environment
-
Adult whale Lulu was one of UK’s last resident pod and had never produced a calf, probably because pollutants in her blubber had caused infertility
-
Around 20 eastern black rhinos are being moved to Akagera national park from South Africa
multimedia
-
After Trump’s revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project, a law in South Dakota could ban protests, as many fear a ‘serious threat’ to water
-
Every year, after mating season, millions of red, yellow and black landcrabs invade Playa Girón, on the eastern side of the Bay of Pigs or Bahía de Cochinos. The crabs migrate from the surrounding forests to the bay to spawn in the sea
-
After Trump’s revival of the pipeline project, some communities along its route are preparing to fight back while others see a promise kept by the US president to ‘make America great again’
key issues
-
WildlifeWildlifeMan arrested at airport with snakes, frogs and lizards in backpackRussian en route from Brazil detained in Amsterdam after reptiles and cockroaches found in buckets in luggage
-
EnergyEnergyKeystone XL: Republican ranchers join the fightback in South Dakota – videoAfter Trump’s revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project, a law in South Dakota could ban protests, as many fear a ‘serious threat’ to water
-
PollutionPollutionWhy the environment must be at the heart of the UK general electionLetters: Fears about climate change, air pollution, waste and possible changes to the Hunting Act concern readers from Brian May and Ranulph Fiennes to James Marsden of Much Marcle
elephant conservation
-
Joël Meriko Ari and Gerome Bolimola Afokao discovered a group of men with a freshly slaughtered elephant carcass. The rangers leave behind 11 children
-
For 40 years I hunted elephants and other big game in the forests of Rwanda. This is how I became an ex-poacher
-
Animal welfare advocates have filmed some of the wild elephants captured in Zimbabwe last year and shipped to China
Keystone XL Defiance triggers assault on a constitutional right
Keystone XL: Republican ranchers join the fightback in South Dakota – video