The European bison and Red Kite have retreated from extinction, according to an update of the official extinction ‘RedList’. These victories for Europe’s largest terrestrial mammal and one of its most magnificent birds of prey have resulted from repeated…
A rufous bush chat was spotted on Saturday at a salt marsh in Stiffkey, north Norfolk, prompting hundreds of birdwatchers to since flock to the area. The rufous bush chat, also referred to as the rufous warbler and rufous…
Tasmanian devils have been reintroduced into the wild in mainland Australia for the first time in 3,000 years. Scientists hope that the predators’ release can help balance ecosystems devastated by invasive species. Species recovery organisation Aussie Ark has collaborated…
Two fifths of global plants and fungi species are at risk of extinction as humans encroach on the natural world, states a new international report from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The grim assessment states that scientists are in…
2020 has been a difficult year. What with Coronavirus, Brexit, enduring racism necessitating the Black Lives Matter movement and World War 3 seeming dangerously imminent, it has been easy to feel increasingly hopeless about the world that we live…