#Conservation

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Emperor penguins declared endangered — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Emperor penguins declared endangered

  Related: #Climate Change, #Policy
• 🇺🇸 Emperor penguins listed as endangered species — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change​ pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife says.

  Related: #Climate Change, #Biodiversity
• 🇺🇸 Appian Way Boards Conservation Doc ‘Snow Leopard Sisters’ As Exec Producer & Noah Media Launches Sales — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Appian Way has signed on as an exec producer on Snow Leopard Sisters. The feature doc premiered at SXSW and follows snow leopard conservationist Tshiring Lhamu Lama as she mentors 17-year-o...

  Related: #Documentary Film, #Female Empowerment
• 🇺🇸 I.U.C.N. Red List Moves Emperor Penguins to “Endangered” — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Populations are declining as climate change causes the sea ice the birds need for survival to retreat, according to researchers.

  Related: #Climate Change, #Biodiversity
• 🇺🇸 Rare mountain gorilla twins born in national park again — 26/03/2026 [USA]

  Twin mountain gorillas were recently born in the Virunga National Park, renowned for its biodiversity but threatened by conflict.

  Related: #Wildlife, #Biodiversity
• 🇬🇧 Shooting restricted for six British wild birds to halt population decline — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Woodcocks and pochard, pintail and goldeneye ducks among threatened species protected by proposals</p><p>Hunters will be banned from shooting a rare and beautiful duck under new proposals to halt t...

  Related: #Wildlife Protection
• 🇬🇧 Predatory feral ferrets removed from an island for the first time ever — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland is ferret-free after £4.5m five-year partnership led by RSPB NI</p><p>Predatory feral ferrets have been removed from an island for the first time ever, in a boost...

  Related: #Invasive Species
• 🇬🇧 I discovered three new geckos in Cambodia’s limestone caves – and that’s not all we found — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The whole ecosystem inside a cave feeds off guano, dead bats, or any dead animals on the ground. It’s not for the faint-hearted</p><p>It can be daunting entering a cave. It is an underground world ...

  Related: #Biodiversity
• 🇬🇧 How an island became ferret free - thanks, in part, to Woody the wonderdog — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  More than 400 traps were laid across the island in a £4.5m project which featured a specially-trained detection dog called Woody.

  Related: #Wildlife Management
• 🇬🇧 ‘She gave her life to protect the richness of Congo’: inside the deadly assault on Upemba wildlife park — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Survivors describe how rangers and staff were targeted by an armed group during a raid on DRC’s national park earlier this month</p><p></p><p>Nearby Congolese soldiers had received warnings of the ...

  Related: #Conflict, #Wildlife Protection
• 🇬🇧 A celebration of wildness and wonder: the Peak District national park at 75 — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The wild moors and gentle dales of the UK’s oldest national park are just as inviting today as they were when it was created in 1951</p><p>Look at a satellite photograph of Britain taken on a clear...

  Related: #Anniversary
• 🇬🇧 ‘A toad is a perfect tenner’: experts recommend wild candidates for new banknotes — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Animals will feature on £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes, the Bank of England says, but which creatures should make the cut?</p><p>Native British wildlife will feature on the next set of £5, £10, £20 and...

  Related: #Currency Design
• 🇬🇧 King launches world's longest coastal walking route — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The King marked the launch of the world's longest coastal walking route with a two-kilometre walk.

  Related: #Tourism, #Public Health
• 🇬🇧 Stop mowing the lawn – and five more ways to save Britain’s ‘charming’ and ‘polite’ gatekeeper butterflies — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Conservation can be hard work. But not when it comes to helping these little orange and brown beauties</p><p>You’ve almost certainly seen gatekeeper butterflies, even if you don’t know them by name...

  Related: #Biodiversity
• 🇬🇧 World's longest coastal path opens in England — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

  Related: #Tourism
• 🇬🇧 Forty years after the last one was poached rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Hunting for the horns and meat, Ugandan poachers once wiped out the southern white rhinos from the country.

  Related: #Wildlife Restoration
• 🇺🇸 How To Bring a Bird’s Song Back from the Edge of Extinction — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding program.

  Related: #Technology, #Cultural Heritage
• 🇺🇸 America's most popular national parks in 2025 revealed in new data — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Did your favorite make the list?

  Related: #Tourism
• 🇬🇧 I love vultures, mosquitoes and, yes, even wasps. This is why you should too | Jo Wimpenny — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>No species is a ‘villain’ – and even humans’ least favourite creatures are part of a web that makes all life possible</p><p>A wasp has just flown into your kitchen. Do you: a) scream and run away; ...

  Related: #Biodiversity
• 🇬🇧 Zoo celebrates first UK-born elephant shrews — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Hertfordshire Zoo says the newborns are a "significant victory for the wider zoological community".

  Related: #Zoo Breeding
• 🇬🇧 We must protect our natural habitats before they disappear | Letters — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Readers respond to Sam Dumitriu’s article on protecting Britain’s environment</p><p>In his article on nature protections (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/08/how-can-we-really-pr...

  Related: #Environment
• 🇺🇸 First grizzly of 2026 spotted at Yellowstone, feeding on bison carcass — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  An image of the sighting showed the massive bear standing over the carcass near Yellowstone Lake.

  Related: #Wildlife
• 🇺🇸 Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.

  Related: #Evolution
• 🇬🇧 Wildlife to replace historical characters on banknotes — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Nature was the most popular theme among the public, with the new notes designed to deter counterfeiting.

  Related: #Currency Design
• 🇬🇧 Villagers on Principe, the ‘African Galapagos’, to be paid for protecting the ecosystem — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>A billionaire is funding a sustainable development project on the west African island that makes the local population stewards of its future</p><p>At the crumbling colonial farm buildings in Porto ...

  Related: #Community Payments
• 🇬🇧 'Extinct' butterfly found across southern England — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  There has been a flurry of early sightings of the large tortoiseshell butterfly, a charity says.

  Related: #Wildlife rediscovery
• 🇺🇸 The Race to Stop Wildlife Trafficking in Africa — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  In Nigeria, customs officers and conservationists are confronting the grim impacts of the $20 billion trade.

  Related: #Crime Prevention
• 🇬🇧 Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Britain’s toads have begun their spring migration, putting them at even greater risk than usual. Here’s how – and why – we should look after them</p><p>There’s a touch of old magic about toads, tho...

  Related: #Amphibian Protection
• 🇺🇸 A retirement home for penguins — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  African penguins at Boston's New England Aquarium have been given a separate, "geriatric" island that allows seven of the 38 critically endangered birds to age safely and still be with their friends. ...

  Related: #Animal Welfare
• 🇬🇧 Twelve Apostles visitors to be charged entry fee to see natural wonder — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Victorian government says ‘it’s only fair’ Great Ocean Road tourists should pay to see famous limestone stacks </p><p>Tourists will soon have to pay an entry fee to see <a href="https://www.theguar...

  Related: #Tourism