• Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford
The great wildebeest migration underpins the entire ecosystem. Getty Images

The great wildebeest migration, seen from space: satellites and AI are helping count Africa’s wildlife

Using satellites and AI, scientists have mapped wildebeest across the Serengeti-Mara, offering a new perspective on how this movement can be monitored from space.
This pangolin was rescued in Thailand but most captive creatures aren’t so lucky. EPA

Pangolin: illegal medicine trade threatens these scaly mammals with extinction

Few people are familiar with the pangolin. It is a shy creature, about as big as a medium-sized dog, and its diet consists of ants and termites. Most distinctively, it has armoured plates and will curl…

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