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Conservation

April 2026

  • Bats illuminated by a camera flash fly out of a cave.

    The age of extinction
    ‘Guano is far more than just droppings’: scientists uncover the secrets of bat poo in Gorongosa park

  • Young Country Diary writer Alice collecting wild garlic in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire

    Young country diary
    Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian

  • Aerial view of a whale surfacing in the ocean with a plume of water shooting from its blowhole.

    ‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico

  • A catch of Atlantic mackerel piled up in a fish separator on board a pelagic trawler

    ‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters

  • Bee held between berry juice stained fingers

    I discovered …
    I discovered the elusive chestnut mining bee in New York after a gap of 119 years

  • A boat in open waters near an oil rig.

    Trump to revoke protections for endangered species in Gulf of Mexico

  • Picture by Jim Wileman - Dartmoor peat restoration, with the South West Peatland Partnership. Little Kneeset.

    ‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands

    A project on Dartmoor to reprofile the landscape aims to return the springy bog – and carbon store – to its natural condition
  • Microglossum cyanobasis

    Striking it licky: rare tongue-shaped fungus found for first time in UK

  • Save our species: Bats Main image composite for web

    Save our species
    Cut the lights – and seven more ways to save Britain’s bats

  • A krill trawler at sea, in between some icebergs

    Down to Earth newsletter
    Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing

    Newsletter
  • A beaver swimming in water in Swanage, Dorset, after reintroduction to England

    Beavers ‘breathe new life’ into Dorset as dams built and biodiversity returns

  • Wildflowers in the foreground, with trees and a rocky mountain in the distance.

    The age of extinction
    Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

  • A wooden walkway curves through a forest.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    How weaving, glamping and kayak tours are helping to tackle deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco

  • A large gorilla cradles two infants

    The age of extinction
    ‘Extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas as new twins born in DRC

    Conservationists celebrate second twin birth just two months after another set discovered in Virunga national park
  • A Mekong giant catfish in the Tonlé Sap lake in Cambodia.

    Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds

    Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%
  • Many sea birds sit on the water and fly around the back of a large trawler

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It smells like a rancid fish and chip shop’: at sea with the Antarctic’s krill supertrawlers

    The fishery is regulated but experts say it is wrecking the food chain. Gordon Peake joined a Sea Shepherd mission to observe the giant ships compete for catch
  • A colony of seals swimming underwater around some rocks

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park

    Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago
  • A bright blue-green snake with yellow eyes is coiled on a rock.

    The age of extinction
    Secrets of the karst: new species found in Cambodia’s limestone caves – in pictures

    A survey has revealed the vast array of wildlife – some never seen before – living within the south-east Asian country’s karst ecosystems. New species discovered include geckos, millipedes and a pit viper
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  • A ferret

    Predatory feral ferrets removed from an island for the first time ever

    Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland is ferret-free after £4.5m five-year partnership led by RSPB NI
  • A man wearing a head torch crouches in a cave, a small snake winding around his fingers.

    I discovered …
    I discovered three new geckos in Cambodia’s limestone caves – and that’s not all we found

    The whole ecosystem inside a cave feeds off guano, dead bats, or any dead animals on the ground. It’s not for the faint-hearted
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