Tuskless Elephants
As the poaching crisis rumbles on, African elephant populations are being decimated. But something strange is also happening to the...
The World Wildlife Conference (CITES CoP17) – what happened and what does it mean for endangered wil
The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP17) involving 182 states from around the world has just finished in...
2050 – the year plastic will outnumber fish
Warning: this article contains photos of animals which readers may find unsettling. Yes, you read that right, according to research by...
Illegal loggers stopped in their tracks
Imagine you’re in a rainforest… what would you hear? Pessimists would say the chuckles of poachers and illegal loggers with the...
Alien invaders on Planet Earth
It may surprise you to learn that invasive species are regarded by conservationists as THE greatest cause of species extinctions in...
Why should we protect wildlife?
Following on from my last post in which I tried to bring across the divide that has been separating many people from the natural world, I...