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What has biodiversity ever done for us?
Jonathan Silvertown
2nd September, 2010
A new book, Fragile Web, reveals why the biodiversity crisis may be humanity's biggest challenge more...
CASE STUDY: Keeping tourism in balance with nature
Eifion Rees
5th January, 2010
Irshad Mobarak, a self-taught naturalist and environmentalist from the Malaysian island of Langkawi says that development need not mean destruction more...
CASE STUDY: from campaign group to Westminster
Dixe Wills
20th March, 2009
From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission more...
Return of Britain's native species
Robin McKie
8th June, 2009
The first great bustards born in the wild in the UK since 1832 hatched last week. The reintroduction of this and many other species is invigorating the countryside, but eradicating foreign invaders - animals and plants - is equally important more...
Possum or polar bear?
William Laurance
8th April, 2009
With global warming putting pressure on animals and biodiversity in the tropics, is it time we had a new poster child for climate change, asks William Laurance more...
Grey Area
Malcolm Tait
13th February, 2009
The increasingly loathed 'tree rat' may not be to blame for the red squirrel's decline after all more...
EU wild-parrot scandal
Tony Juniper
3rd January, 2009
A decade and a half after conservationists wrung from the European Parliament a commitment to end the trade, the EU remains the largest importer of parrots in the world. more...
Q & A: Bruce Parry, explorer & TV presenter
Laura Sevier
1st October, 2008
Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living more...
UN report assesses the worth of the natural world
News
1st July, 2008
Just as Sir Nicholas Stern’s report in October 2006 put a price on the effects of climate change, a new report by the UN has begun to cost out the threat of failing to conserve the world’s biodiversity – a cool £40 billion annually, and rising. more...
In a climate of political chaos Zimbabwe's wildlife is being exterminated
Robin Hammond
1st June, 2008
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A green army
Andrew Wasley
1st June, 2008
Natural resources,are increasingly responsible for fuelling violence across the world. Now some environmentalists want to fight back – using force if necessary. more...
Earth Shattering: Ecopoems edited by Neil Astley
David Hawkinns
1st June, 2008
Context is all in a comprehensive new anthology of verse with an environmental bent. These poems make sense of a disappearing world... more...
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Behind the Label: Roundup Weedkiller
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2008
A weedkiller that kills a lot more than simply weeds? If it’s worse than the poison it’s no cure at all, says Pat thomasmore...
Bad news, bears
Nick Kettles
1st March, 2008
From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and Béarn, to the Basque country in the North, both locals and tourists are used to seeing Nationalist slogans daubed in white paint on Pyrenean mountain roads. But now a new clarion call is vying for their attention: Non Ours (no bears) and Mort aux Ours (death to the bears.) more...
Campaign to save British Bees launched
News
12th February, 2008
The British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) will this week call for for a five-year £8m research programme to save the insect from colony collapse disorder (CCD). more...
Flamingos threatened by soda-ash mining
News
12th July, 2007
A huge soda-ash mining plant to be built on the banks of Lake Natron in Tanzania will push the lesser flamingo to the brink of extinction, the Guardian has reported. more...
Old-growth forests must be protected, say scientists
News
7th June, 2007
Forty-two biologists and botanists have sent a signed petition to the governments of British Columbia and Canada calling for full protection of the country's old-growth forest. more...
Dead as a dolphin?
Malcolm Tait
1st April, 2007
Another animal’s gone extinct. But this time it’s one of our most beloved creatures – a dolphin. Malcolm Tait reports on a species loss that is more than just another statistic more...
On the EDGE
Mark Anslow
16th January, 2007
A new programme from the Zoological Society of London promises to protect endangered and little-known species more...
EDGing forward
Mark Anslow
10th January, 2007
The Zoological Society of London has today launched a new programme to draw attention to the bizarre, unusual and endangered. more... England Vanishing
22nd September, 2006
How do we define ourselves in time and space? A new book England In Particular suggests it is the commonplace, the local and the distinctive that tells us where we are more...
BACK FROM THE DEAD
Malcolm Tait
1st July, 2005
Vast and enduring, nature defies ourattempts to put it in a box more...
After the Gold Rush
Charles Clover
1st December, 2004
The biggest and most indiscriminate killers of wildlife on the planet, commercial fishing fleets have brought us to the edge of a maritime ecological disaster, with fish stocks facing extinction all around the world.more...
The fate of India's vultures
Malcolm Tait
1st October, 2004
India’s vulture population is facing catastrophic collapse and with it the sacrosanct corporeal passing of the Parsi dead more...
Zoos - 20th century anachronism or biodiversity preservation tool?
Daniel Turner, Dr Miranda F Stevenson B.A., MBA.,
1st March, 2004
Are zoos an essential tool for preserving biodiversity in the 21st century or a Noah's-Ark-style anachronism riddled with woodworm and sinking fast? more...Members
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