conservation

Mona Khalil died Friday after an Israeli airstrike hit her beachside home two weeks ago. She's credited with creating a conservation movement in southern Lebanon to protect sea turtle nesting grounds.

Dr. Sushma Sharma, Assistant Professor, Sikkim Government Law College, Gangtok, Sikkim ABSTRACT The growing pressure of modernization, population expansion, and technological advancement have significantly increased the demand for environmental resources, posing serious challenges to environmental sustainability. This rising threat to the environmental resources to meet the demands of the society…

Young people around the world who are passionate about protecting the ocean, waterways, and the climate now have an exciting opportunity to transform their ideas into meaningful action through the Bow Seat True Blue Fellowship 2026. This prestigious international fellowship empowers young changemakers who use the creative arts as a powerful tool to address environmental […] The post Bow Seat True…

From animal care to studying endangered species, learn about the work we do—and how your Aquarium visit helps support it! The post How Every New England Aquarium Ticket Supports Ocean Conservation appeared first on New England Aquarium .

Hungry for greenery in a city short on parks, residents have reimagined San Vicente Boulevard.

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country The Lebanese marine activist Mona Khalil, who became a beloved figure in the country for a decades-long effort to protect a nesting site for turtles near her home, has died from injuries sustained in an Israeli strike. Khalil, 76, ran a sanctuary called the Orange House Project near the M…

The reconstruction of the vaquita, whose numbers barely reach double figures in the wild, is designed to help research and conservation efforts Scientists have created a digital reconstruction of the world’s most endangered marine mammal, preserving its anatomy in three dimensions to aid research and conservation efforts as the species teeters on the brink of extinction. The project digitised the…

Aquaculture can help both coastal ecosystems and economies thrive. The post Resilience Through Restoration: Oyster Growers Find New Opportunities in Conservation appeared first on Cool Green Science .

The online mobilisation of digital collections has made tens of millions of specimens accessible for scientific research, helping discoveries in conservation, food security, and biodiversity studies. Many of these projects focus on questions such as extinction risks, improving estimates of plant distributions across space and time, and conservation planning for threatened species. But digitisatio…

As demand soars, the country’s mangrove forests and the livelihoods of shellfish gatherers are under threat from encroaching farms and unchecked pollution At low tide, Johana Carolina Cruz Potes steps into the mudflats around Isla Costa Rica, in Ecuador ’s Jambelí Archipelago. Holding a bucket and a short metal hook, she probes the tangled roots of a mangrove patch, searching for concha negra , b…

Portsmouth, Hampshire: A huge conservation effort is under way to restore native oysters to the Solent, and I was on hand to help give them a pre-release spa day Native oysters ( Ostrea edulis ) have been harvested from Chichester Harbour since Roman times, but due to overfishing, disease, pollution and competition from invasive Pacific oysters ( Magallana gigas ), the population has declined by …

Camera footage in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less active — especially at night — during the Russian occupation, highlighting the war's immediate impact on wildlife.

‘Mastermind’ Dawie Groenewald given fine of 2m rand or four-year jail term almost 16 years after arrest Two traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what police said was the world’s largest such case, partly bringing to an end an almost two-decade legal saga. Dawie Groenewald and Tielman Erasmus had faced more than 1,700 charges ranging from illegally hunting and…

A Trump administration rollback of public land conservation protections is putting hundreds of Montana bison—and broader Indigenous and ecological restoration efforts—at risk.

The Catalan ultrarunner is dedicating his 2026 racing campaign to calling attention to the attacks on public lands protections across the U.S. The post Kilian Jornet’s Next Big Challenge: Getting Americans to Care About Protecting Public Lands appeared first on Outside Online .

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has announced $20 million in conservation grants to restore, enhance, and protect longleaf pine forests across nine southern states. The grants will leverage more than $18.6 million in matching contributions, generating a total conservation impact of $38.6 million. The post NFWF Announces $20 Million in Grants to Restore Longleaf Pine Forests Acros…

This wetland south of Syracuse was saved from developers and preserved as an unspoilt haven for migratory birds We rented Il Nido because we thought other people wouldn’t like it. Small and basic, without internet, the property was supposedly beside a beautiful national park famous for its coastline and migratory birds. The online picture suggested it was pressed up against one of those concrete …

Areas where land and water meet have always played a fundamental role in the formation and development of cities. From historic commercial ports to today's multifunctional waterfronts , maritime and riverfront areas represent spaces of significant economic and social potential . Within this context, contemporary marina complexes are increasingly taking on the role of strategic urban facilities, c…

As scientists gather in Salt Lake City for this year's ESA Annual Meeting, many presentations will focus on the ecological challenges and opportunities facing the Intermountain West.