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

The age of extinction

  • Are debt-for-nature swaps the way forward for conservation?

    Agreements to reduce developing countries’ debt burden in exchange for spending on nature will be on the agenda at a finance summit in Paris this week

  • Nature at risk of breakdown if Cop15 pledges not met, world leaders warned

    Author of landmark UK review into the economic value of nature joins UN environment chief in calls for ‘action, not just words’ on biodiversity goals

  • Hornet hunters
    The crack squad keeping an invasive species at bay on Jersey

    A retired police detective and a band of volunteers are all that’s stopping the Asian hornet, a voracious predator of flying insects, from spreading across the island to mainland Britain

  • ‘I still can’t get over the fact we did it’
    What it felt like to seal historic Cop15 deal

    The global agreement to protect nature was signed in Montreal in December. Six months on, key figures remember the moment and consider what lies ahead

    • One of Britain’s largest sunken forests reveals its secrets

    • Birds
      Can you spot the phezukomkhono? (that’s Zulu for red-chested cuckoo)

    • Activists take Canada’s environment minister to court in fight to save northern spotted owl

    • Insect decline a threat to fruit crops and food security, scientists warn MPs

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Explore

  • Field of fresh cow pats welcomes first dung beetles to be rewilded in France

    • More than 50,000 wild birds in UK killed by avian flu – double previous estimates

    • ‘Appalling’ Earth Day greenwashing must not detract from message, says protest founder

    • Bannau Brycheiniog: new name for the park but poor state of nature harder to fix

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

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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?

  • The five ways we’re killing nature and why it has to stop – video explainer

     

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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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Wild world

  • 2022: the year rewilding went mainstream – and a biodiversity deal gave the world hope

    Max Benato

  • Top-flight recovery: the inspiring comeback of the California condor

  • Ospreys make triumphant return as breeding pairs spread across UK

  • ‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

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Wild cities

  • 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

  • How to tag a rhino? Use tech, tact … and plenty of caution – a photo essay

  • Dig in: how to build a forest from scratch – in pictures

     
    The Bristol-based charity Forest of Avon Trust has just acquired 100 acres of grazed farmland near the village of Pensford, Somerset, to create the Great Avon Wood. Alongside charity partners Avon Needs Trees, the aim is to plant more than 40,000 trees supplied by the Woodland Trust over the next three years, resulting in a green corridor of three linked woodland sites. The first step is an army of volunteers …

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

    The 900 residents of the Manitoba town have learned to share their streets on the edge of the Arctic with the huge animals and the eager tourists who come to see them
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