#conservation

#conservation

Each of these newly funded projects are exploring ways for young people to get involved, as well as offering quality apprenticeships and research opportunities for hands on experience, such as research to safeguard endangered sharks in the Thames Estuary. These initiatives show how heritage is empowering the next generation - building confidence, skills and connecting with the heritage that matters to them - from historic places to the natural world. Thanks to National Lottery players, we're supporting ambitious projects that care and value heritage and give young people a voic

Five pairs of rubbery feet carry velvet-sheathed black-and-white bodies towards the rope line separating the king penguins from the dozen or so visitors, who look on in awe. As these emissaries shuffle over, a hundred of their cohorts parade on a nearby bank, splashing around in the water and regurgitating food into their chicks' open beaks.

Choughs are considered Cornwall's national bird and feature in its coat of arms but vanished as a resident from the far south-west of the UK in the early 1970s, largely because of the decline of their grazed clifftop habitat. Their disappearance was keenly felt across Cornwall but particularly, perhaps, in and around Tintagel because of the bird's connections to the legend of King Arthur.

By the time we see our first gorilla, I'm ready to sit down on a patch of grass and, honestly, take a rest. After two hours of vigorous hiking, I want to ask the gorillas if they can just hang on a moment so I can catch my breath. The hike began with a bang: up a steep incline, through a non-native eucalyptus woodland, past tea plantations at 6,200 feet above sea level, then down into the dense brush. Once inside Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, we traipsed along a narrow path lined with mahoganies and strangler figs while skipping over branches and lines of angry red ants.

Known for his stunning photos of wildlife and landscapes, as well as co-founding SeaLegacy alongside fellow conservationist and photographer Cristina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen has traveled the globe to not only highlight our planet's phenomenal biodiversity but also to shed light on its increasing vulnerabilities due to the ongoing climate crisis.

The Bajau people recognize how important mangroves are to their livelihood and survival. By cultivating mangrove trees, they have been able to bring back fish whose habitats had dwindled and protect the coastline from erosion.

The bluebuck represents a pivotal step forward for Colossal and conservation, marking our first major focus on antelope conservation. Every reproductive technology, genome editing protocol, and conservation tool we develop through this effort is designed to scale.

As we destroy the environment, we are destroying ourselves, he told an audience at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, held to address global environmental issues. We are part of the web of life, and what we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

New Zealand may be saturated with images of its treasured national bird but it is rare to see one in the flesh and this was the first time kiwi had ever set foot in parliament.

McCormack's new book, Patterns: Art of the Natural World, emerged from a period of quieter reflection during the pandemic, where he explored his immediate surroundings.

For two years, the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) and TaHuKah had been watching camera-trap footage of the bridge, waiting for the day that an orangutan would finally cross. After two long years, it's finally happened.

The carcasses of 18 wolves have been found in an Italian national park within the space of a week in an apparent series of poisonings described by conservationists as the most serious crimes against wildlife in Italy in a decade.

White park cattle are an ancient breed, different to the selectively bred commercial animals usually associated with farmed cattle. Price described them as a semi-wild animal that was partially domesticated.

"Extending the spring crab season with pop-up gear helps support an economically vital fishery while preventing whale entanglements. It's a true 'win-win' for fisheries and wildlife."

Fungi are some of the most important things in the world. They feed 90% of terrestrial plants. Without them, there is no life on the Earth.

The Florida scrub jay, listed as 'critically imperiled' by NatureServe, is one of the 15 bird species fully endemic to the United States.

'Our results show that the next 20 years are critical,' lead author Dr Rob Cooke told the Daily Mail. 'By around 2050, we reach a point where the choices we make on emissions and land use will largely determine whether Britain moves towards a much more degraded or a much more nature‑positive future.'

Longnose spurdog sharks, locally known as kalb al-bahr, are sold on Libyan fish markets. Fishermen catch them even though they are carrying eggs, driven by economic necessity.

The Martuwarra Fitzroy River is one of Australia's last-remaining relatively intact, undammed tropical river systems. For now. The river faces many threats, for instance, from water use in agricultural irrigation.