A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’?
In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why
‘The last plant left’: can Rapa Nui’s extinct tree be resurrected?
The last fragments of ancient Irish rainforests may face a new threat … trees
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Explainers
Explainer
Forgotten epidemic: with over 280 million birds dead how is the avian flu outbreak evolving?
The five biggest threats to our natural world … and how we can stop them
The biodiversity crisis in numbers - a visual guide
10 ways the climate crisis and nature loss are linked
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Wild world
Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer
For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
Patches of wildflowers in cities can be just as good for insects as natural meadows – study
Crabs, cockatoos and ringtail possums: the wild things thriving in our cities
Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds
Nature’s ghosts: how reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven
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Nature heroes
‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert
Colombia
‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform barren ranches into rainforest
Saimaa ringed seals
‘Like a giant bird box’: the volunteers building huge snowdrifts for Finland’s pregnant seals
I discovered the wreck of the Titanic – but seeing these vents in the sea floor was far more exciting
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Negotiating nature
Cop16
Cop16 nature summit agrees deal at 11th hour but critics say it is not enough
Cop16
Crucial UN nature talks are about to reopen in Rome – but will enough countries turn up?
30x30
More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges – analysis
Biodiversity summit
Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16
Conservation
Global biodiversity offsetting doesn’t work – keep schemes local, say experts
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Watch, see and listen
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? – podcast
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Guardians of the Gibbons: can India save its only ape species from extinction?
India's only ape species and are critically endangered. Two individuals from different worlds unite to protect a species on the brink.
It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses – podcast
Biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston hears from farmers on the west coast of Scotland who claim they are losing hundreds of lambs a year in a case of rewilding gone wrong
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