Searching for solutions to coexisting with carnivores in the hills above Lander, Wyoming.
Jaden Bales
To investigate what’s really behind the controversy that surrounds large carnivore reintroductions, one political ecologist spoke to people on the frontline of this debate.
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Top conservation scientists demand a legally-binding requirement to reverse biodiversity loss at home and overseas.
Velvet swimming crab in maerl at Lamlash Bay.
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Rewilding is about finding ways to let nature thrive and regenerate. Around the world, cities and community projects are doing just that.
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More Europeans are having to learn how to live alongside predators again. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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A herd of javelinas wrecked a pristine golf course. Is this rewilding in action?
An African white rhino cow and calf.
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What would you do with 2,000 farmed rhinos? An African charity wants them to help their wild cousins.
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Nature positive is the new rallying cry to reverse environmental decline. But it could easily become greenwash – if we’re not careful.
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Australia has almost 1.8 million farm dams – and some are home to threatened frog species
A conservation researcher counts ringtailed lemurs for a zoo’s annual stock take. Zoos have the capacity to do more for conservation science and practice.
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Zoos have the potential to do more for growing conservation science and practice.
Smaller predators steer clear of wolves, but that brings them closer to people – and the dangers humans pose.
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Reintroducing wolves can restore important ecological processes, but it can have unintended effects when smaller predators like coyotes are driven closer to people, a team of ecologists found.
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Rewilding is risky but we can learn from past attempts to use it as an effective tool for conservation
Collared leopard being released into North Ossetia, Russia in 2022.
Pavel Padalko
New research studies the factors that determine whether large carnivore reintroductions will be a success.
Ian Rotherham
Atlantic rainforests once lined the island’s west coast – and could one day return.
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Tasmania’s emus were hunted to extinction in the mid-1800s but we could have them back – and their return could help other species survive climate change.
Peter Contos
New research shows rewilding with invertebrates – insects, worms, spiders and the like – can go a long way in bringing our degraded landscapes back to life.
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Wolves killing livestock are seizing an opportunity for a meal in a landscape with little natural prey.
Senegal’s Saloum Delta.
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Ecosystems thrive in places where human connections with nature go back generations.
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These wetland birds were eradicated in the 17th century, but breeding pairs returned in 1979.
A pygmy cormorant enjoys the restored delta ecosystem in Mahmudia, Romania.
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Mahmudia became a wasteland under dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist agricultural policy. But villagers fought to resurrect their home and reconnect with the wilderness.
Wolf watching in Sierra de la Culebra, Spain.
Chisco Lema
A farming community in north-west Spain may hold the answer to coexistence with wild carnivores.