Australia’s logging ‘madness’ fuels more fires, hastens ecosystem collapse
A thick, acrid scent of smoke marks the last summer season in Australia, which has become known as the “black summer.” Between June 2019...
Logging Fueled Last Year's Catastrophic Megafires In Australia And Could Spark Repeats
From the Amazon to Siberia wildfires set much of the world ablaze in 2019, with some areas suffering the largest burns ever recorded....
Preventing pandemics, global warming and environmental degradation all at once
The Earth and its inhabitants face three global crises: the pandemic crisis, the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis. Unto themselves,...
Biodiversity offsetting requires lots of land
This guest blog by Laura Sonter, Jeremy Simmonds, James Watson and Martine Maron examines why avoiding impacts is a better solution to...
Saving endangered species: Now we must focus on ecosystem health
It’s been almost a decade since nations from across the globe convened in Aichi Prefecture of Japan for a meeting of the Convention on...
Humanity's footprint is squashing the world's wildlife
The planet's wildlife is increasingly living under the boot of humankind, a new study claims. A group of researchers from the Wildlife...
‘Intense’ human pressure is widespread among terrestrial vertebrates, study finds
A new study assessing the cumulative impacts of human activities on wildlife found that the vast majority of terrestrial species are...
Quarter of the world's oceans need urgent action to preserve wildlife
More than a quarter of the world's oceans need "effective conservation" to stave off a rapid decline in biodiversity from over-fishing...
An alternative to biodiversity offsets: Target-based ecological compensation
A short animated video explaining the concept of target-based ecological compensation.
Our long shadow: humanity places ‘intense’ pressure on 17,500 species of land vertebrates
A new study looking into the impact of human activities on wildlife reports that a staggering number of terrestrial vertebrate species...