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Reporting on our catastrophic species loss, and ways to tackle the biodiversity crisis

  • Why are India’s lions increasingly swapping the jungle for the beach?

    The last of the world’s Asiatic lions live in Gujarat state, but as the apex predators outgrow their forest reserve, they are moving to the seaside
  • Greenwashing era is over, say ad agencies, as regulators get tough

    Insiders welcome stricter rules in the UK and EU over the use of terms such as ‘carbon neutral’ in adverts, and claims concerned with offsetting
  • Scotland considers annual laser scan to monitor health of forest and peatlands

    Airborne ‘lidar’ survey would generate 3D map of the country and provide high-quality information on its ecosystems
  • Flagship EU law to restore nature must not be derailed, warns environment chief

    Rejection of key legislation on pesticides and restoration of wildlife ‘would send a dangerous, negative signal to the world’
    • Uganda’s first wildlife vet on breaking the mould – and why gorilla and human health are linked

    • Great pretender
      The bird with an Elvis-like quiff that can’t stop mimicking

    • Gardeners urged to ‘keep it local’ when creating a wildflower meadow

    • Filipino activists appeal to British banks over region devastated by oil spill

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Explore

  • ‘I still can’t handle the big ones’: the new wave of spider hunters scouring Britain’s heaths

    • Biggest carbon credit certifier to replace its rainforest offsets scheme

    • First birds, now mammals: how H5N1 is killing thousands of sea lions in Peru

    • Parasitic fungus that infects and kills spiders discovered in Brazil

    • Colombia floats new strategy for Escobar’s hippos: ship them abroad

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Cop15

  • First Cop15, now the high seas treaty: there is hope for the planet’s future

    Many agree that strides have been made in protecting biodiversity and the oceans – but much remains to be done
  • Overconsumption by the rich must be tackled, says acting UN biodiversity chief

  • The biodiversity crisis in numbers - a visual guide

  • Drama, dismay, triumph
    Nailbiting climax to the world’s biodiversity deal

  • Final text
    Did the summit deliver for the natural world?

  • My trip to space made me realise we have only one Earth – it must live long and prosper

    William Shatner
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Podcasts

  • Exposing rainforest carbon credits: why offsetting isn’t working

     
  • The age of extinction: can we prevent an ecological collapse?

     
  • ‘A possible extinction event’: the UK’s worst bird flu outbreak – podcast

     
  • 100 days until Cop15: what next to save nature?

     
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  • ‘The hydropower goldrush’: how Europe’s first wild river national park saw off the dams

    The Vjosa River in Albania teems with more than 1,000 species, while rare vultures and Balkan lynx visit its banks. It has seen off the threat of a surge in barriers, but the shadow of development persists
  • 2022: the year rewilding went mainstream – and a biodiversity deal gave the world hope

    Max Benato
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  • The crowd goes wild: FC Barcelona reveals Camp Nou stadium’s animal inhabitants

  • Buzz stops: bus shelter roofs turned into gardens for bees and butterflies

  • London’s blooming
    Gardens flourish on the tube – photo essay

  • Toronto’s mystery predator really is a coy-wolf – but not as we know it

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Pictures

  • A jail for wayward polar bears? You must be in Churchill, Canada…

  • Soaring, leaping, swooping … a world of wildlife by the world’s top photographers

     
  • Fire, floods, drought: projections of a frightening new world – in pictures

     
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