Conservation

In Kenya and Tanzania, native communities are capitalizing on the insect business to ditch the ecologically damaging and illegal logging trade.

Jamming bats' echolocation with ultrasound is showing promise in reducing fatalities at wind energy facilities.

According to an internal email, the National Park Service will be given congressional funding to retroactively pay for operational costs expended during the partial government shutdown.

France's new strategy to stop importing "unsustainable forest and agricultural products" is just one piece of a much bigger puzzle for the European Union.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups oppose Bernhardt's nomination due to his background as an oil and mining industry lobbyist.

Researchers found that urban gardens and allotments provide especially good habitat for pollinator communities.

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Many national parks were kept open but unstaffed or understaffed, with serious consequences for the parks, their employees, and their visitors.

As researchers tag an increasing number of species, a debate has arisen over the consequences for animal welfare, conservation, and technology.

It's taken a long time, conservationists say, partly because of complicated land ownership issues.

In many countries, national well-being is often monitored through on-the-ground household surveys, but new technology could change that.

By using foxlights, which mimic a person walking with a flashlight, researchers were able to cut down big cat attacks on llamas and alpacas in the Andes.

A multi-institutional research team used the power of open-access databases to predict the conservation status of more than 150,000 plants.

Researchers are working to find a way to mitigate the damage to local populations of the amphibious creatures if a skin eating fungus makes its way to the U.S. from abroad.

David Bernhardt, who will step in to fill the role, is a lawyer and lobbyist with strong fossil fuel and water industry ties.

Satellite data indicates that the Congo Basin lost an area of forest larger than Bangladesh between 2000 and 2014.

The documents went back up two days after a newspaper reported their removal, and just 12 days before the close of the plan's public comment period.

Nepal has had remarkable success at tackling the poaching of its greater one-horned rhinos but, since 2015, it has witnessed a sharp increase in deaths from unknown or natural causes.

Small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years, according to new research.

The great ape personhood movement aims to extend legal personhood to apes, a distinction that recognizes these non-human animals as beings with the capacity to hold both rights and duties.

While illegal mining in the Amazon has been a problem for decades, new data shows levels that are not comparable to any other period of its history.

In a new study, a team of biologists highlight the assortment of animals that profit from the free meals provided by the kills of big cats.

Gun deaths in the U.S. hit a 20-year high, the Supreme Court declines to wade into an abortion debate, and a study offers some hope for coral reefs.

After a fierce partisan fight, Congress has reached an agreement on SNAP, forestry, and conservation programs.