Conservation
Covers efforts to protect endangered species, preserve biodiversity, and restore ecosystems, highlighting conservation programs, strategies, and successes.
Some snakes lack the ‘hunger hormone.’ Experts are hungry to know why
The gene for ghrelin is missing in serpents, yet present in other fasting reptiles.
A sea turtle boom may be hiding a population collapse
Around the world, many conservationists are celebrating increases in sea turtle population growth. Cape Verde in West Africa now has 100 times as many loggerhead turtle nests each year as there were in 2008.
We want to protect red squirrels – so why don’t we protect their habitats?
Conservation efforts to improve red squirrel numbers in mid Wales are being undermined by developers, writes Lorna Brazell of the Cambrian Mountains Society
Romeo, once the last known frog of his kind, died. But this story isn't a tragedy.
Even though the famous frog and his "Juliet" failed to mate, a new discovery raises hope for their species. Romeo was once known as the "loneliest frog in the world," until herpetologists found five additional Sehuencas water frogs during an expedition in 2019.
This tiny Florida gecko is disappearing—can we save it before it’s too late?
The overlooked reptile is earning state-level protections, but it may not be enough to save the species. The Florida reef gecko, which lives in small pockets of South Florida’s tropical hardwood hammocks, is the only gecko native to the eastern U.S.
‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights
Two yellowing street lamps cast a pool of light on the dark road winding into the woods outside Mazée village. This scene is typical for narrow countryside roads in Wallonia in the south of Belgium .
Gray wolf appears in Los Angeles county for first time in more than 100 years
A gray wolf wandered into Los Angeles county for the first time in more than a century on Saturday morning. “This is the most southern verified record of a gray wolf in modern times,” Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California department of fish and wildlife, said.
‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers
Shivering and rain-drenched at the side of a pond in Cornwall, a huddle of people watched in hushed silence as a beaver took its first tentative steps into its new habitat.
Some snakes lack the ‘hunger hormone.’ Experts are hungry to know why
The gene for ghrelin is missing in serpents, yet present in other fasting reptiles.
A sea turtle boom may be hiding a population collapse
Around the world, many conservationists are celebrating increases in sea turtle population growth. Cape Verde in West Africa now has 100 times as many loggerhead turtle nests each year as there were in 2008.
We want to protect red squirrels – so why don’t we protect their habitats?
Conservation efforts to improve red squirrel numbers in mid Wales are being undermined by developers, writes Lorna Brazell of the Cambrian Mountains Society
Romeo, once the last known frog of his kind, died. But this story isn't a tragedy.
Even though the famous frog and his "Juliet" failed to mate, a new discovery raises hope for their species. Romeo was once known as the "loneliest frog in the world," until herpetologists found five additional Sehuencas water frogs during an expedition in 2019.
This tiny Florida gecko is disappearing—can we save it before it’s too late?
The overlooked reptile is earning state-level protections, but it may not be enough to save the species. The Florida reef gecko, which lives in small pockets of South Florida’s tropical hardwood hammocks, is the only gecko native to the eastern U.S.
‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights
Two yellowing street lamps cast a pool of light on the dark road winding into the woods outside Mazée village. This scene is typical for narrow countryside roads in Wallonia in the south of Belgium .
Gray wolf appears in Los Angeles county for first time in more than 100 years
A gray wolf wandered into Los Angeles county for the first time in more than a century on Saturday morning. “This is the most southern verified record of a gray wolf in modern times,” Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California department of fish and wildlife, said.
‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers
Shivering and rain-drenched at the side of a pond in Cornwall, a huddle of people watched in hushed silence as a beaver took its first tentative steps into its new habitat.
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