Wild Bison Are Returning to England’s Forests For First Time in 6,000 Years
A relative of the iconic beast that roams the American Great Plains is going to be released in an ancient forest in Kent, England—where they haven’t resided for 6,000 [...]
Tag: Conservation
EU Plans to Raise $22 Billion Annually to Protect 30% of Land and Oceans for Biodiversity
The European Commission (EC) has made a concrete pledge to enshrine 30% of the EU’s land and oceans as protected zones by 2030. To reach this end they plan to raise 20 billion [...]
Maasai Nature Conservancy Asks For Help To Fight Pandemic—And 100,000 People Answer
The rolling plains of the Maasai Mara in Kenya are home to the famous red-cloaked Maasai people as well as some of the most charismatic animals on earth.
When it became clear [...]
White Storks Have Hatched The First Wild Chicks Born in England in 600 Years
The babies brought by these storks weren’t delivered in blankets.
The White Stork Project was delighted to announce last week that wild storks in West Sussex have hatched their [...]
Indigenous Group in Brazil Wins Decades-Long Battle Against Illegal Loggers in the Amazon
A victory in a decades-long court battle provided relief for a special part of the Amazon rainforest and for the Ashaninka indigenous people who live there, as their 1990s lawsuit [...]
Harpoons Are Silenced: Iceland’s Whaling Boats Spend Second-Straight Season Tied Up in Port
For the second straight year, there will be no whale hunting season in Iceland, and conservation groups are celebrating.
After the international moratorium against whaling began [...]
Pakistan Hires Thousands of Newly-Unemployed Laborers for Ambitious 10 Billion Tree-Planting Initiative
Although the novel coronavirus pandemic has driven thousands of workers into unemployment, the Pakistani government has found a way to provide jobs to their citizens while also [...]
What Can One Person Do in 10 Years? This Man Planted 152 Million Mangrove Trees
“Here we have a burgeoning (mangrove) leaf. You take it and you plant the lower third in the mud, and then you take 2 steps—one, two, and then you plant another one,” said [...]
100 Year-old Bachelorette Tortoise May Be the Last of Her Species – But She Has New Hope for a Boyfriend
Last year, in the recently expanded Galapagos Islands National Park, scientists made a “monumental” discovery when they found a solitary female tortoise on one of the islands [...]
Scottish Government Scores Hole in One for Wildlife, Blocking Golf Course on Protected Coastline
On every continent, wildlife habitats of all kinds are threatened with development and construction, but perhaps none stand at greater risk than coastline ecosystems like [...]
Brazilians Get Juicy Tax Breaks When They Adopt Animals, Plant Trees, or Hail Historic Roots
A slew of Brazilian cities are passing laws that offer tax deductions or exemptions for citizens who want to pitch in to restore the health and beauty of their [...]
Cherokee Nation First U.S. Tribe to be Invited to Preserve Their Heirloom Species in Global Seed Vault
With close to 1 million samples from nearly every country on earth, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the remote Svalbard Island, between Norway and the Arctic, contains the [...]
CO2 Emissions Stopped Rising Last Year Says IEA, Thanks to Growth in Renewables, Shunning of Coal
An exciting new study calculated that, contrary to expectations, global carbon dioxide emissions did not continue their increase in 2019, but actually flatlined as renewable [...]
5 Years After Turning Disused Military Bases into Nature Reserves, Wolves Return and Use Bases as Havens
In a remarkable legislative move that increased the amount of protected areas for wildlife in Germany by 25%, the German government moved in 2015 to convert 62 disused Cold [...]
If You Buy a Sapling For This Rainforest, Money Goes to Turn Illegal Loggers Into Forest Guardians
We can take shorter showers. We can try to recycle our plastic. We can make sure to turn the lights off in our homes at night. But the sense of urgency in the face of our climate [...]
World’s Last Known ‘Dinosaur Trees’ Saved From Australian Bushfires Thanks to Determined Firefighters
Conservationists are celebrating the success of a mission to save the world’s last remaining “dinosaur trees” from the Australian bushfires.
The ancient Wollemi Pine was [...]
More Than 200 Volunteer Firefighters From US and Canada Have Deployed to Help With Australian Bushfires
Back in 2018 when wildfires were raging through California, 138 firefighters from Australia and New Zealand flew into the United States so they could help combat the [...]