BrainCan - conservation

penalara national park in rascafria, spain

Just over an hour from Madrid is a spectacular national park where you can wander in the footsteps...

cenotaphs of orchha in orchha, india

The cenotaphs of the Bundela Rajput kings of Orchha stand like silent sentinels of history on the...

cantabrian bears of asturias in cangas del narcea,...

An endangered subspecies of the Eurasian brown bear stalks the mountains and ancient woodlands of...

nest in pemenang, indonesia

Located off the northwest coast of Lombok in Indonesia are the three Gili Islands: Gili Air,Gili...

are plants intelligent? new book says yes

A recent book,Brilliant Green, argues that not only are plants clever and sentient, and but that we...

doug tompkins meets dan mcdougall, fashion tycoon...

Doug Tompkins made a fortune "selling people countless things they didn't need". Now he's...

zoos could become conservation powerhouses

In the face of mass extinction,a new report by the World organization of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA)...

our ancient woodlands are being bulldozed |...

An area forested since 1600 – as Smithy Wood in Sheffield has been – should not be turned into a...

chris packham: it has a psychopathic element,...

The Countryside Alliance says he is an extremist and wants the BBC to fire him. But the...

ted smith obituary

Conservationist who inspired the creation of wildlife trusts and nature reservesIn the school summer...

snake road in wolf lake, illinois

Do you love cavorting with snakes,frogs, salamanders and other reptiles and amphibians? Would you...

should we give up half of the earth to wildlife?

Populations of all kinds of wildlife are declining at alarming speed. One radical solution is to...

richard hedley obituary

My dad,Richard Hedley, who has died aged 80, or said he was lucky to have lived in two of God’s...

julian usborne obituary

My younger brother,Julian Usborne, who has died aged 76, or was an extraordinary mixture;...

england s brown and pleasant land needs protection...

Build on brownfield? Not so like a flash. Nature can thrive in railway sidings,disused quarries and...

the doomsday vault: the seeds that could save a...

Set in an Arctic mountainside,the Svalbard seed bank contains the world’s most prized crops. But a...

tiger country? scientists uncover wild surprises...

Partnering with indigenous groups,conservationists discover a wealth of wildlife in Bangladesh’s...

five near blind monk seals become ambassadors for...

For the first time,Hawaiian monk seals are on public display external of the Aloha State....

living sharks museum in westerly, rhode island

An easel on the sidewalk suggests a pop-up-style shark museum exhibition hiding on the third floor...

norwegian town installs auto dimming streetlights...

This is a video demonstration of and discussion about the auto-dimming streetlights that have been...

how humans are driving the sixth mass extinction

Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet...

welsh adventurer to traverse madagascar on foot...

What enact you after completing the world’s first unsupported trek across Mongolia? Well,whether...

the indian village learning to live in harmony...

To end snow leopards killing valuable livestock,villagers in Himachal Pradesh have changed the way...

is ireland ready for the star wars invasion? |...

With Hollywood approximately to descend on Skellig Michael,a world heritage site off the coast of...

saving the yellow eyed penguin - a photo essay

Photographer Murdo MacLeod visits New Zealand’s South Island where conservationists are seeking to...

africa s new elite force: women gunning for...

Abused and deprived mothers and daughters are being honed into a squad of sharpshooters to save...

norman moore obituary

Conservationist whose work led to a ban on pesticides such as DDT,and so helped populations of birds...

an old broom sweeps clean

Stock Gaylard,Dorset The oak fair is for those interested in timber, woodcraft, and the countryside...

across the invisible threshold

Carrifran valley,Scottish Borders There is a genuine sense here of what the glens, cwms and valleys...

the bloodlust of modern day hunters is a disaster...

People queue up to kill Norways’s wolves and bears,while Japan continues its whale slaughter....

bee friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit...

Countrywide scheme is flourishing after being set up to reverse a 75% decline in insect...

ian langford obituary

Ornithologist,conservationist and publisher with a special interest in wildlife artIan Langford, who...

nancy hatch dupree obituary

Conservationist and champion of Afghanistan’s people and culture and promoter of literacy in rural...

pressure grows for uk to bring in blanket ban on...

Consultation by the government shows huge public support for ending all salesEnvironmental...

a chance for sphagnum is a chance for all

Fannyside Muir,North Lanarkshire Legal protection for this Scottish peat bog, and the birds that...

bitter battle to save king lear s green valley...

A court ruling has backed Dover councils decision to allow builders into an area of outstanding...

failing our forests: in two years we ve lost...

Fire. Oil palm. Cattle. Soy. Rubber. Wood. unique data from Global Forest Watch shows that forest...

david attenborough unveils uks newest nature...

Britain’s threatened birds including kingfishers,bitterns and Cetti warblers find a refuge in...

people love chris packham because he isn t afraid...

As his #wheredovesdie trip to Malta shows,Packham uses his celebrity status to promote good causes,...

after 60 million years of extreme living, seabirds...

A fresh study finds that the world’s seabird populations bear plummeted by nearly 70% in just 60...

victorias otway koalas: if we don t intervene,...

Koalas around Cape Otway,south-west of Melbourne, are facing a struggle for survival that will...

cornish coastline plan offers new haven for rare...

Terns,spoonbills and visiting hoopoes will be given protectionLittle terns and black-throated divers...

trouble in paradise: lord howe island divided over...

Rodents are threatening the unique natural environment of Australia’s sparsely populated Lord Howe...

parks are good for us - so why are they being...

It may seem sensible for Brighton and Hove city council to save £175000 a year by sacking its...

we know we may be killed: the rangers risking...

The enormous national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most dangerous...

eastern lowland gorillas are now critically...

The eastern lowland gorilla—the largest member of the mighty ape family—is now officially listed...

home of uk patron saint of conservation opening to...

£4.4m lottery grant will see opening of the Slimbridge home of Sir Peter Scott,who designed the...

queen bees lay fewer eggs when exposed to popular...

modern research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows that a widely-used lesson of...

hong kongs pink dolphins under threat from airport...

Conservationists awe Hong Kong’s unique dolphins are at risk of disappearing due to loss of...

uk criticised for failure to defend european...

Nine countries warn European commission not to weaken birds and habitats directives in favour of...

mining and oil threatens one in three natural...

WWF finds 31% world heritage sites at risk from fossil fuel exploration and mining,including Great...

coastal conservation doesn t get its due | janaki...

The state is ignoring conservation,ecological and social concerns in its pursuit of building a...

scariest part of climate change isn t what we...

My good friend and tropical conservation rockstar, Bill Laurance, just emailed me and asked if I...

hadrians wall joins forces with chinas great wall...

‘Wall to Wall’ project will see heritage experts from the UK and China work together to increase...

dentist wins green oscar for using healthcare...

Scheme offering Indonesian villages that stop illegal logging large discounts on medical care is...

obama creates three new national monuments to...

Mojave Trails,Sand to Snow and Castle Mountains designated as national monuments to push total land...

wildlife tv shows dont help conservation, says...

Martin Hughes-Games,of the BBC’s Spring, Autumn and Winterwatch, or says series presents ‘a...

rewild to mitigate the climate crisis, urge...

Restoring degraded natural lands highly effective for carbon storage and avoiding species...

sadiq khan accuses ministers of stalling over post...

Mayor of London and green groups call for swift action after current research suggests government...

conservationist to fly 4,500 miles in motorised...

Sacha Dench will gallant arctic Russian temperatures to trace the migration route of Bewick’s...

douglas tompkins, co founder of north face, dies...

Millionaire behind adventure brand and Esprit,who ploughed fortune into saving South American...

lock up your fish, the fen raft spider is back |...

One of Britain’s largest arachnids has been brought back from the brink of extinction. Which is...

countryside alliance urges bbc to sack chris...

Wildlife presenter accused of pursuing ‘obsessive crusades’ and corporation of printing...

fisheries symposium a hit

Our two-day symposium at the University of South Florida-St. Pete campus was a hit. We drew a much...

the last great wilderness area is finally being...

In a rare international collaboration,twenty four countries and the European Union acquire...

conservation is many things to many people

I’ve never really entered the so-called (i.e.,contrived) ‘debate’ regarding unusual...

subconsciously sexist?

It was with some consternation that I processed some recent moment-hand scuttlebutt about my...

take an underwater tour of the most biodiverse...

Coral reefs have been having a rough time of it lately,have you heard? They’re in the midst of the...

leopards have lost 75% of their historical habitat

modern research shows the tremendous cats’ global range has shrunk by a shocking amount over the...

stop armed militia to save rare forest giraffe,...

Action plan says endangered okapi will be lost without action to tackle illegal mining and armed...

how to rank journals

… properly,or at least ‘better’. In the past I contain if ranked lists of journals in...

malis desert elephants face extinction within...

Conservationists urge government to tackle ivory trafficking as 16 elephants killed in this...

keep elephants in the wild where they belong

The arrangement to ship 18 elephants from Africa to zoos in the USA makes me wild. Zoos are no place...

only thing worse than being labelled deadly , is...

I had an inviting exchange on Twitter nowadays that deserves some discussion,not because the brief...

baby gorilla zachary bonds with mother at illinois...

Zachary,a Western lowland baby gorilla, spends time with his mother, or 11-year-old Kamba,at...

green groups hail conservationist felicity...

Until her untimely death,the respected environmentalist had served as distinguished Barrier Reef...

challenge one of the world s greatest aircraft...

For more than a decade,Kashmir World Foundation (KwF) has been operating aircraftaround the world...

smart safe keeping: blending artificial...

increasingly,drones are becoming a normal allotment of our future. “When we firstintroduced the...

job: koala data research technician

If you live in South Australia,and in Adelaide especially, you would believe had to be living under...

influential conservation ecology papers of 2016

As I own done for the final three years (2015,2014, 2013), and here’s another retrospective...

tips for scientists to deal with the media

I regularly give science communication workshops that include tips for dealing with reporters and...

journal ranks 2015

Back in February I wrote about our fresh bibliometric paper describing a fresh way to rank...

plans to log tasmanias world heritage forests...

State government calls UN recommendation ‘disappointing’ but says it would be irresponsible to...

threatened wallaby species gets a lifeline thanks...

Three-year program to monitor and sustain an isolated population of black-flanked rock wallabies in...

brazils pantanal the worlds biggest wetland: in...

To celebrate World Wetlands day,WWF is highlighting its work in the Pantanal, the world’s biggest...

haddock from uk waters removed from sustainable...

MCS takes some haddock fisheries off green list – but Scottish fishermen accuse it of ‘dressing...

inaugural environmental arsehat of the year

As you recall,I asked both for your nominations and your votes for the inaugural Environmental...

utah s great salt lake is shrinking at an alarming...

Located in Utah,the remarkable Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere,...

oppose atf s 5.56 m855 ball ammunition ban

The Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has announced it is seeking to ban...

water vole areas in england and wales fall by 30%...

Species remains UK’s fastest declining mammal despite large reintroduction programmeThe number of...

mexico creates vast new ocean reserve to protect...

Fishing,mining and new hotels will be prohibited in the ‘biologically spectacular’ Revillagigedo...

vote for the 2016 environmental arsehat of the...

In March 2016 I requested nominations for the Environmental Arsehat of the Year,and you fortunately...

in conversation with current conservation

In August I had the pleasure of visiting the National Centre for Biological Sciences in...

homage to hanski

Originally posted on The Quantitative & Applied Ecology Group: A tribute from QAECO Ecology lost a...

wildlife needs hunters and shooters to thrive

Yes,“We built that,” but the work is far from over. Here’s how you can do your fragment to...

relocating nepals rhinos in pictures

A greater one-horned rhino has been successfully moved to a new domestic in Bardia national park....

conservation first as rehabilitated siberian tiger...

Orphaned tiger who was rehabilitated and released back into the wild has given birth to two cubs in...

europe strengthens ban on seal products after wto...

MEPs vote to firm up EU embargo on seal products,after partially successful challenges by Canada and...

can we save biodiversity? not as long as ...

Like you, I’m tired of the fixed battle with ill-informed politicians who claim all sorts of...

influential conservation papers of 2015

As I did last year and the year before,here’s another arbitrary, retrospective list of the top 20...

englands natural beauty areas at risk, says...

Conservation organisation claims that local planners are not always applying law correctly in...

the sum of a place: gwent levels

“They always say the best way to see the Gwent Levels is with a microscope or a helicopter”. I...

essential papers you ve probably never read

“What would you consider to be the most well-known papers to read in your discipline?”. That was...

measuring shocks to the global seafood supply

By Jeff Atkins ESA 100 research news originally posted on the PLOS Ecology Field Reports blog on...

new poll open for misinterpretation

Extremist animal rights groups are sure to embrace a unusual Gallup poll as evidence that public...

it s not over yet on the 5.56 green tip ammo...

Industry members and politically aware gun owners know the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, Firearms, and...

job: research associate in eco epidemiological...

Earlier this week I advertised two current PhD scholarships in palaeo-ecological modelling. Now we...

venting your author frustrations

Every scientist worth her salt has had hershare of annoying interactions with journal editors —...

conservationbytes.com leaving the university of...

In reality,ConservationBytes.com isnt going anywhere. But Corey Bradshaw is. You’ll still be able...

herpes outbreak among australia s green sea...

Australian scientists in the midst of investigating a herpes outbreak among green sea turtles at the...

environmental arsehats

I’m starting a original series on ConservationBytes.com — one that exposes the worst...

infographic: ammunition under attack

The California Fish and Game Commission on April 9 adopted regulations to implement the law that...

atf to not move forward with 5.56 m855 ammo ban at...

Will Review Record Number of Comments Submitted on Its ‘Framework Proposal ATF announced today...

give to our oceans today

It’s Giving Tuesday, which is as good a day to give back to the oceans that give us so much....

taste of the sea — be there!

We are gay to support our friends at Sea Delight Ocean Fund. They are hosting their first Taste of...

scientists hope to foil deadly frog fungus with...

It’s been called “the worst infectious disease ever recorded among vertebrates.” The...

a plan to save this mammalian species from...

The rat-like Bramble Cay melomys is the first mammal to go extinct because of human-induced climate...

gone batty: israeli woman uses home to open...

Noura Lifschitz uses her domestic in Tel Aviv to open Israel’s first shelter for fruit bats. The...

nssf program hunting works for america adds...

And then there were nine. I’m extremely pleased to announce that Hunting Works For Colorado has...

welsh biologist carl jones wins top environmental...

Biologist who saved nine species from extinction has been given the Indianapolis Prize for...

conservation

Search category post