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In Vanua Levu, the second largest island of Fiji, every contour drips with green. The landscape is impossibly lush and verdant.

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Governments should embrace the realities of shifting biodiversity rather than "investing in futile efforts to return the natural world to its historic state," a new study argues.

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I was filled with hope when I read the first draft of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) in mid-2021. It seemed that the parties to the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity had learnt from bitter experience — the failure of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, set for the previous decade.

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Researchers found there is no need for policymakers to choose between protecting nature's benefits to people or protecting animal species.

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Commercial fishing vessels in the Pacific could see regional fisheries observers returning to their decks as early as January...There are concerns the three-year-absence of these observers from commercial fishing vessels has been detrimental to the regulation of the world's largest tuna fishery.

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A new app, developed in-house, has made documenting biodiversity easier and more efficient for the staff of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance in Papua New Guinea.

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In 2010, politicians and scientists made a pledge to halt the devastating reductions in wildlife numbers that had been denuding the planet of its animals and sea creatures for the previous century.

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A UN-backed mission to the Great Barrier Reef has concluded the world’s biggest coral reef system should be placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger.

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The story of the biodiversity crisis starts with a cold-case murder mystery that is tens of thousands of years old.

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