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To conserve global biodiversity, countries must forge equitable alliances that support sustainability in traditional pastoral lands, fisheries-management areas, Indigenous territories and more. Global support is growing for the 30 × 30 movement — a goal to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030.

According to a new report co-written by Illinois Natural History Survey postdoctoral researcher Valeria Trivellone, climate change, poverty, urbanization, land-use change and the exploitation of wildlife all contribute to the emergence of new infectious diseases, which, in turn, threaten global f

Recent disasters such as the Black Summer bushfires and the Juukan Gorge destruction highlighted the need to put Indigenous people at the centre of decision-making about Australia’s natural places...A project off Western Australia’s northwest coast offers a potential way forward.

The finding comes out of an effort to map where vegetation is emitting and soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere...The research found that over the course of those two decades, living woody plants were responsible for more than 80% of the sources and sinks on land, with soil, leaf litter,

After years of climate-worsened damage to its vibrant corals, Australia's vast Great Barrier Reef could this week be added to UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage sites.

A kiwi bird has been killed by a dog on conservation land in Taranaki. The female North Island brown kiwi was found with bite marks along its body in the Pouiatoa Conservation Area in North Taranaki.

In the six years since listing 23 regional plants and animals as “endangered species,” the federal government has yet to designate any critical habitats to help protect them from extinction. This inaction is at the heart of a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

Efate’s Vaturisu Council of Chiefs as the custom custodians of the land on the island, has suspended all mining as well as prospective mining on Efate until February 2022...The discussion had drawn to the council’s attention that this prospective activity of mining would greatly impact the f

Safeguarding nature in one area can displace harmful activities, such as illegal logging or mining, into another, a phenomenon known as leakage or spillover; but how big is the problem?

The Tongan government has approved the Tonga Ocean Management Plan, a milestone in the work to ensure sustainable management of the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).