Nature at risk in the hunt for the perfect selfie









The need for a dramatic selfie or the perfect landscape photo is proving detrimental to nature, a new research collaboration has found.

A new data-driven map predicts substantial undocumented peatland areas in Amazonia, Adam Hastie, J Ethan Householder, Eurídice N Honorio Coronado, C Gabriel Hidalgo Pizango, Rafael Herrera, Outi Lähteenoja, Johan de Jong, R Scott Winton, Gerardo A Aymard…

BIODIVERSITY TARGET STUDY - Conservation efforts directed towards just 0.7% of the world’s land mass could help protect 1/3 of the world’s threatened and unique tetrapod species.

(October 2024) - Scientific evidence has documented we are undergoing a mass extinction of species, caused by human activity. However, allocating conservation resources is difficult due to scarce evidence on damages from losing individual species. This paper…

Study uncovers vivid and poignant accounts of reefs as high as houses off countries including UK, France and Ireland

The breeding population of monarchs is stable, but they’re dying off in droves on their migration South to Mexico.

Climate change projections suggest a precarious future for the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) as the suitable climatic habitat of its exclusive overwin...

African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that documents alarming population declines at numerous sites across the continent…

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise

Nature Food - What we eat, as well as where and how it is grown, impacts species extinction risks through agricultural land use. Using a new global biodiversity impact data product, this study...

Researchers on expedition to Dauan Island heard two distinct frog calls in the rain and ‘sure enough, they were species new to science’

Published on 17 November in the Journal of Applied Ecology, the research introduces a novel metric called “overlap intensity” which for the first time, measures not just the extent of shared space between penguins and fishing vessels, but how…