A recently released summary of an assessment from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reveals that people rely on 50,000 wild species of plants ...
Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, came into force 50 years ago and remains one of the most ...
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Billions of people, in developed and developing nations, benefit daily from the use of wild species for food, ...
Conservation actions are having results: after decades of decline, the population of the Iberian Lynx increased from less than 100 individuals in 2002 to more than 1600 in 2022. What first comes to ...
Marcus Lashley is an associate professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Florida. They go by many names – pigs, hogs, swine, razorbacks – but whatever you call them, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) ...
Species conservation succeeds only when it strengthens whole ecosystems. Focusing on a single animal can harm the broader web ...
Researchers have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make them more suitable for human cultivation than others. Researchers at the University of Southampton have ...
Cambridge, UK: 8th June 2021 - The current COVID-19 pandemic has put the spotlight on wildlife and the potential role of wild animals in the transmission of zoonotic disease, highlighting the intimate ...
The Trump Administration is proposing new changes to the Endangered Species Act. Conservation organizations are concerned ...
In this article, we explore some of the rare and exotic species of wild cats and highlight their unique characteristics, habitats, and conservation status. The Margay The margay is a small wild cat ...
There has been an overwhelming drop in the number of wild bee species that are reported in public records over the past 30 years, according to a new study. Researchers looked at bee records in the ...