London doesn’t meet the criteria for a national park – not even close. Calling it that could undermine the label itself.
- Course Director, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, University of Oxford
A reserve near Amsterdam lost many wild cattle and deer over the tough winter, leading to public protests. Yet this was a failure of Dutch politics rather than rewilding itself.
This massive savannah needs restoration but we can’t rely on food companies to do the hard work.
Is an extinct animal really gone forever?
Why Earth Day needs to more than an opportunity for environmentalists to spread the word.
Restoring natural ecosystems doesn’t have to mean looking back to the past.
Full marks to colleagues at the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London for the Living Planet Report 2014 and its headline message which one hopes ought to shock the world out of its complacency…
Addressing the conference on illegal wildlife trafficking in London, Prince Charles said it “broke new ground”, while Prince William said it represented an “unprecedented gathering” that has “never before…
In an article for National Geographic and a forthcoming documentary film, author and birder Jonathan Franzen ponders the slaughter of migratory songbirds around the Mediterranean, and asks how it can be…
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