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Many of the threats facing biodiversity and protected areas will be exacerbated during, and following, the Covid-19 outbreak. The health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected.

Seventeen sites with regionally significant ecological values have been identified as new candidates for the Key Native Ecosystems programme in Taranaki, covering an area of more than 3000 hectares. The Taranaki Regional Council will reveal the province's new Key Native Ecosystems or KNEs at

It was during a screening of the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon that the Fiji Crested Iguana was first identified. The movie was partially shot at Nanuya Levu, Fiji and, when John Gibbons from the University of the South Pacific watched the sweeping landscape shots of native flora and fauna on th

Mangrove trees—valuable coastal ecosystems found in Florida and other warm climates—won't survive sea-level rise by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions aren't reduced, according to a Rutgers co-authored study in the journal Science.

NOAA today announced it will formalize and expand its longstanding partnership with Schmidt Ocean Institute to explore, characterize and map the deep ocean and boost public understanding of the global ocean.

"The ocean connects us, rather than separates us" - This message rang through the crisp morning air as the village of Moata’a, Samoa, and its partners, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) of Samoa, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (S

Despite news stories about nature benefiting from the COVID-19 crisis, one funder of conservation projects worldwide is skeptical that there really are significant improvements in the status of wildlife.

Amidst the ongoing challenge of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing worldwide, the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) has called for collective action t

Sharon Wilson is a fifth-generation Texan who drives around rural communities and takes pictures of oil and gas facilities with an infrared camera. The pictures make visible all the methane pollution that industry and governments pretend is not happening in rural communities.

The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans—where it can be stored for tens of millennia—is revealed in new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).