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Fijian iguanas have been making a home at the San Diego Zoo for more than 50 years. The prince of Tonga gave the zoo six Fiji banded iguanas in 1965, and the first hatchling was born in 1981.

New research explores the work of Yolŋu Indigenous Rangers in North-East Arnhem Land to understand their crucial contribution of Indigenous cultural and natural resource management...For the past 25 years, the Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation (Dhimurru) has contributed to the sustainable

Nature rarely recognises national borders. Many Australian birds, for example, are annual visitors, splitting their time between Southeast Asia, Russia, and Pacific Islands.

Tickled by sunlight, life teems at the ocean surface. Yet the influence of any given microbe, plankton, or fish there extends far beyond this upper layer.

Protected Area Practitioners And Government Stakeholders Of Kiribati Are Now Equipped With The Hands-On, Practical Knowledge Of Finding Relevant Up-To-Date Data, Information Resources And Technical Guidance On Protected And Conserved Area Management. It follows a virtual training on the tool

A new project in Wellington aims to regenerate the region's seaweed forests. Nic Toki mentioned the Love Rimurimu restoration project recently during Critter of the Week. Mountains to Sea executive director Zoe Studd talks to Jesse about their work and what they're doing.

Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by smartphones and rapid gains in computing power that make the analysis of large data sets far easier.

It is now common to refer to the current biodiversity crisis as the sixth mass extinction. But is this true? Are we in the middle of an event on the same scale as the five ancient mass extinctions Earth has experienced? Humans are indeed driving animals and plants to extinction.

In a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, environmental science and management professor Elise Granek and lead author Casey Lewis, PSU alumna, report the findings of a census of zooplankton communities in non-native mangrove habitats and open coastline on the islan

A proposed conservation area in northwestern Papua New Guinea has experienced a substantial surge in deforestation-related alerts, according to satellite data from the University of Maryland.