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Vanuatu’s longest stretch of coastline (over 110kms) is also home to Vanuatu’s largest biodiversity hotspot: The West Coast Santo Mountain Chain...The Santo Mountain Chain’s stunning plants, animals and high peaks, combined with extreme development challenges are exactly why the Santo Sunset

To the untrained eye they look like worms, but Samoans know these marine creatures as palolo, and they are revered as the caviar of the South Pacific.

A group of economists, anthropologists, and environmental scientists from three continents argued that concrete policies to promote better management of biodiversity haven’t been prioritized in most economic recovery packages that countries around the world are proposing after the pande

The fifth edition of the UN’s Global Biodiversity Outlook report...provides an overview of the state of nature worldwide. Factors like man’s current relationship with nature, continued biodiversity loss and the ongoing degradation of ecosystems are having profound consequences for human well

One-fifth of the world’s countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing because of the destruction of wildlife and their habitats, according to an analysis by the insurance firm Swiss Re.

...around the world, ecosystems and wildlife face growing threats from human activities, habitat loss and climate change. If one species dies off, its predators don't have as much to eat — and the cycle repeats.

Two sites in Western Australia amassing to an area larger than Tasmania have been placed in the care of traditional owners. The land totalling seven million hectares has been declared Indigenous Protected Areas and dedicated to the National Reserve System.

Returning specific ecosystems that have been replaced by farming to their natural state in all continents worldwide would rescue the majority of land-based species of mammals, amphibians and birds under threat of extinction.

University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands globally.

UC Santa Barbara forest ecologist Anna Trugman—along with her colleagues at the University of Utah, Stanford University and the U.S. Forest Service—investigated the effects of repeated, extreme droughts on various types of forests across the globe.