WILDLIFE
Recognising success
Jan 30, 2016
Written by
Laura Cole
A Kenyan wildlife ranger receives the inaugural Tusk Ranger award for rhino conservation success
Stork of the dump
Jan 27, 2016
Written by
Laura Cole
Opportunistic white storks are shortening winter migrations in favour of human landfill sites and fish farm leftovers
Trophy shutdown
Jan 20, 2016
Written by
Chris Fitch
This week, strict new US wildlife regulations come into effect, aimed at stopping trophy hunting and protecting the world’s remaining wild lions
Conserving Liberia
Dec 04, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
‘If you want a country to be able to manage or conserve its forests and biodiversity, it must have the local capacity to do it,’ says Dr Mary Molokwu, who has been establishing academic forestry and conservation programs in Liberia.
The power of pilots
Nov 28, 2015
Written by
Frans Schepers
Frans Schepers, the managing director of Rewilding Europe, outlines the actions and ambitions of the organisations plans for building a network of rewilding areas across Europe
Bear necessities
Nov 27, 2015
Written by
Daniel Allen
Fewer than 50 Marsican brown bears roam the Apennine Mountains of central Italy. Daniel Allen and Cain Blythe investigate whether new protection measures can bring Italy’s largest carnivore back from the edge
George Monbiot on the future of rewilding
Nov 27, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
Laura Cole speaks to George Monbiot, environmental journalist and author of Feral, on the rewilding debate, carnivores and being human
Rise of the shearwater
Nov 26, 2015
Written by
Hazel Southam
Once a common sea bird on the Isles of Scilly, by the start of 2014 Manx shearwaters were on the verge of extinction due to a rodent invasion. But dedicated conservationists and some rat poison can go a long way
Running wild
Nov 26, 2015
Written by
Daniel Allen
More Europeans than ever before are migrating from countryside to city and rewilding initiatives – such as the re-introduction of European bison into Romania’s Tarcu Mountains – may offer a better mix of ecology and economy for the land left…
Conservation, Hunting, and Rewilding in Africa
Nov 26, 2015
Written by
Lee Hewitson
What can countries such as the UK learn from rewilding initiatives taking place in Namibia?
Safe from harm
Nov 25, 2015
Written by
Geordie Torr
In Australia, a private conservation organisation is taking the lead in attempts to halt one of the worst extinction crises of modern times
Bringing the wilderness back
Nov 25, 2015
Written by
Olivia Edward
Centuries ago, the forests and glens of the Scottish Highlands were home to wolves, bears and wild boar, before deforestation and hunting drove them to extinction. Olivia Edward meets the owner of the 9,300-hectare reserve at Alladale, who plans to…
Life returns
Nov 24, 2015
Written by
Stephen Cunliffe
Located in the heart of the Congo, World Heritage-listed Garamba National Park is one of the oldest national parks in Africa. However, decades of abuse at the hands of rebel armies and commercial poaching gangs have decimated its once prolific…
Rewilding Britain
Nov 24, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
Rewilding Britain, a new environmental charity, was launched out of the recent surge in interest in rewilding ecosystems. Geographical talks to Helen Meech, its first director, about the role the organisation will take
Bison – back in business
Nov 23, 2015
Written by
Yvonne Kemp
In the dunes near the urban centre of Randstad in the Netherlands roams a group of European bison, part of a unique project aimed at returning this emblematic beast to Dutch land
Mysterious die-off of Saiga antelopes
Nov 10, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
In one of the worst mammal die-offs in recent history, more than half the world’s population of saiga antelopes were found dead in Kazakhstan over the course of two weeks
A bigger Britain for birds
Oct 27, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
The outer margins of British bird ranges have been moving further north at an average rate of 3.3km a year, research says. As climate change is predicted to shrink bird ranges in the long-term, Geographical investigates why this anomaly is…
Beavers create nitrogen sinks
Oct 23, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
Already known as a keystone species, research shows that beavers in North America can also sink excess nitrogen in the watershed
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