Chris Packham: ‘We’re precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event’
Wildlife broadcaster Chris Packham’s kinship with the natural world began before he could even speak. As a young…
Dingle peninsula receives award for being Ireland’s ‘greenest place’ – The Irish Times
Dingle peninsula in Co Kerry, overall winner in the augural Ireland’s Greenest Places Awards, was honoured at a…
Can Star Power Close A Billion-Dollar Gap?
Maggie Baird, Billie Eilish, Alex Wolff, Rozzi Crane Matteo Prandoni/BFA.com When I first heard about The Nat Gala,…
UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves amid biodiversity challenges and climate change
An Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70%…
Orogeny shapes the diversification of an ancient and relict spider family (Hypochilidae), with the stepwise uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau driving the radiation of Asian lineages | BMC Genomics
Parsons PA. Environments and evolution: interactions between stress, resource inadequacy and energetic efficiency. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc.…
Rarest Monkeys Now Number Close to 2,000 Thanks to One Man’s Jane Goodall-like Passion
A golden snub-nosed monkey in Tanjiahe National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province – credit, David Blank CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.…
Scientists Discover New “Ghost” Species of Marsupial, Closely Related to the Kangaroo
Bettong illustration. Credit: Nellie Pease Scientists have discovered a new species of marsupial in Australia’s bushland, closely related…
European cisco – genetic adaptation to variation in salinity and spawning time
European cisco roe is known as a Swedish delicacy. A new study has shown that there are different…
First-Ever Photos Reveal Secretive Giant Rat of New Guinea
Large rat Mallomys istapantap. Image from a camera trap. Credit: František Vejmělka, originally published in: Vejmělka, F. (2025).…
Mink eradication scheme being piloted in Midlands in first step towards eliminating invasive species – The Irish Times
A pilot initiative to eradicate mink and protect ground-nesting birds is to be undertaken around Lough Ree in…
Endangered Red and Yellow Mountain Frogs Are Bred for First Time–Years of Work to Save the Species
– credit Southern Cross University A unique and beautiful mountain-dwelling frog has been bred in captivity and released…
Influence of tick age and land-use on Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in Ixodes ricinus ticks from the Swabian Alb, Germany | Parasites & Vectors
Study region The study region, Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg, is part of the German Biodiversity Exploratories. Spanning 420 km2,…