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A new, highly pathogenic form of avian flu has been sweeping through wild bird populations across the Northern hemisphere. The unprecedented levels of mortality…

Wide-net environmental solutions wouldn't be enough for 57% of threatened species.

Seabirds in Scotland are suffering amid a fast-spreading bird flu that has already killed nearly 400,000 birds globally since last October

 Global bird populations have steadily declined for the last three decades, says new research. The continued growth of the human footprint on the natural world – which has led to the degradation and loss of natural habitats as well as direct ove

Integrating satellite data and hundreds of thousands of individual bird sightings posted on eBird, an online public database, scientists have developed a more precise method for mapping the habitats of more than 1,300 forest bird species at high risk of extinction.

Credit: Professor Stephen Willis A continental-scale network of conservation sites is likely to remain effective under future climate change scenarios, despite a predicted shift in key species distributions. New research, led by Durham University and published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, investigates the impacts of potential climate change scenarios on the network of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) across the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The re...

Credit: Professor Stephen Willis A continental-scale network of conservation sites is likely to remain effective under future climate change scenarios, despite a predicted shift in key species distributions. New research, led by Durham University and published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, investigates the impacts of potential climate change scenarios on the network of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) across the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The re...

Ten conservation success stories when species came back from the brink The blue whale, the mountain gorilla and the European bison are among the animals that have avoided extinction, showing what works to preserve the world’s wildlife Life 17 February 2021 Getty Images LOOK at how we missed all 20 of the past decade’s biodiversity targets, or shocking graphs of animals threatened with extinction, and it is e...