Category Biodiversity

Warming climate and human activity are threatening Nepal's high-altitude wildernesses. The Limi Valley is experiencing rapid encroachment, pushing wildlife into smaller areas.

Researchers propose marine rewilding, an active recovery strategy, to enhance ocean health beyond traditional protected areas. Key principles include integrating human involvement and restoring food webs, such as reintroducing sharks.

Conservationists are working to save critically endangered orangutans from wildfires intensified by El Niño in Borneo. Seven individuals were rescued in August alone.

The Wiwa community of Gomke is voluntarily relocating to lower terrain in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to adapt to climate-related disasters and armed actors, preserving their community structures.

Conservation efforts for migratory raptors are insufficient without considering their entire flyway, including wintering sites in West Africa where many are killed annually.

A study in Ecuador's Amazon found that Indigenous territories without formal conservation contracts maintained forest conditions as effectively as formally protected areas, with some showing positive vegetation greenness trends.

Reintroduced beavers are transforming dry landscapes into wet meadows by building dams that store water, sustain vegetation, and create natural fire breaks.

Siekopai women in the Ecuadorian Amazon are using traditional knowledge and technology to help vulnerable charapa turtles. Efforts combat threats from hunting, egg harvesting, pollution, and environmental changes.

Integrating Indigenous and local community knowledge into tree seed propagation can significantly improve the survival and resilience of forest restoration projects, particularly in Southeast Asia.

The Starmus Festival has created the Jane Goodall Earth Medal, with Christiana Figueres selected as the inaugural recipient for her climate agreement work. The medal honors the late conservationist.