Category: Endangered habitats

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future

Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worseA small brown line snakes its way through the...

Read More

Joy and relief as lotus flowers bloom again in Kashmiri lake after three decades

Wular Lake once supported 5,000 people who harvested the plant’s edible roots, until the lake silted up after floods. Now the lotuses are back “We threw seeds into the lake hundreds of times, but nothing grew....

Read More

Why are some of Britain’s ancient woodlands failing to regenerate?

With forests under pressure from drought, heat, disease and deer, a study has found fewer trees across a range of species surviving to maturity. But scientists say there is still hopeTo the untrained eye, Monks Wood looks...

Read More

The multinational companies that industrialised the Amazon rainforest

Analysis shows handful of corporations extract tens of billions of dollars of raw materials a year – and their commitments to restoration vary greatlyA handful of global giants dominate the industrialisation of the Amazon...

Read More

Outcry over plans for Sussex holiday village next to rare bird habitat

Center Parcs proposal for 223-hectare woodland site faces opposition from activists and localsCenter Parcs has been criticised over plans to build a complex on rare bird habitat in Sussex, next to a site of special scientific...

Read More
Loading

Breaking News

prev next