Conservation

Go down to the woods

Forests have been high on the environmental agenda recently - as well as being the focus of a current WWF campaign, the UN declared 2011 as the International Year of...

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Dams damned by court ruling on saving Snake River salmon

A United States government agency has been found guilty by a court of failing to protect an endangered salmon species adequately. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service...

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Reserves alone cannot stop biodiversity collapse

Efforts to prevent the avalanching collapse of biodiversity around the globe are failing, two respected ecological researchers claim today. Despite the number and size of protected reserves leaping ahead -...

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Tiger's death highlights concerns

It comes to something for a species when the death of a single animal can represent a disaster - but that's what has happed in Indonesia. The concern about the...

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Mapping mangroves aids conservation of valuable habitats

Mangroves are globally important habitats, found across the world from South East Asia to the Caribbean. A varied collection of trees and shrubs adapted to a salty intertidal environment, mangroves...

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