A new survey serves up a tall order for UK agricultural policy outside the EU.
- Environmental Social Scientist, Newcastle University
As Chile’s central mountain region warms, guanacos are wandering into trouble.
New report reveals big cats are kept in awful conditions. But the link to poaching in the wild is not clear cut.
Polar bears ‘invading’ a Russian village have renewed concern over climate change in the Arctic, but human-wildlife conflicts are flaring up everywhere.
Few people could argue that hunting wildlife for trophies is moral, but conservationists have bigger fish to fry to reverse biodiversity loss
The life-or-death drama of the lion pride will captivate viewers, but the show may not go on without funding to conserve these species.
From wealth, to the natural world, to genes and intelligence, a podcast exploring the theme of inheritance.
Lions and leopards seem to prefer cattle belonging to farmers who treat their workers badly. Don’t blame the animals – this is a human problem.
Countries with healthy populations of big game should allow tourists to hunt them.
Each new human on the planet makes extinctions more likely, yet birth control still isn’t seen as a big environmental issue.
There’s more to reintroducing wildlife than just releasing a few lynx.
Southern Africa’s game farms are private reserves that house wildlife such as giraffes, zebras and antelope to be used for restocking national parks, meat production or trophy hunting. But these farms…
In a rare conservation success story, research has shown that numbers of wild large carnivores in the continent have been steadily increasing and a third of the European mainland now has at least one kind…
Wolves, lions and other large carnivores rely on meat for sustenance and there are only so many wild animals to go round. Sometimes, dinner means cow or sheep. Farmers can use guard dogs or protective…
Conservationists have recently become very excited about financial incentives. The idea is to pay people to do things that will help biodiversity, for example, where farmers are paid not to till crops…
There has been a huge increase in attention recently to the problem of wildlife poaching, mostly from the stream of grisly stories from Africa about rhino and elephants illegally killed for their horn…
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