Category: Conservation

Big gains for little terns: how Lindisfarne reserve is helping a rare bird survive tourism

Seasonal wardens and netted fences are helping protect the rare ground-nesting birds that arrive each spring on the UK’s shoresOn Ross Sands in Northumberland, a little tern has caught sight of a group of people and is...

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Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

Calaminarian grassland is a rare habitat where plants thrive in soils contaminated by heavy metals. But should these toxic meadows be protected or allowed to fade away?At first, the small purple flowers are hard to spot in the...

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Protecting lions and people: the biologist dedicated to tackling human-wildlife conflict

Moreangels Mbizah has blazed a trail in Zimbabwe as the first black African woman to found a conservation organisation in the country The turning point for Moreangels Mbizah came in 2014. The conservation biologist was in Hwange...

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‘I escaped death a lot of times’: one man’s lifelong work protecting gorillas and communities in Congo

As a child, Dominique Bikaba, was displaced by a new national park in the DRC. Now he is helping to secure land for wildlife and Indigenous groups against the backdrop of ongoing fightingMist hangs low over the forested slopes...

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