Nature

Australia is sending powerful waves through the global environmental community with a landmark move to protect its oceans.

Each winter, the Bay of Biscay becomes a place of quiet tragedy for dolphins. As these highly intelligent marine mammals migrate into the region, fishing activity intensifies at the same time.

Beyond the boundaries of national jurisdiction lies the High Seas, a vast expanse that covers most of the ocean and nearly half of Earth’s surface.

Ecuador has made history again by extending its pioneering rights of nature framework to include its coastal and marine ecosystems coral reefs, mangroves, fish populations and all.

The UK government has launched an ambitious plan to dramatically reduce and where possible, end the use of animals in scientific research and testing. Science Minister Lord Vallance and other senior officials unveiled a detailed “roadmap” strategy called Replacing animals in science: a strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods.

The world-famous Glen Affric National Nature Reserve has taken a giant ecological leap. Managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), it has now officially become part of Affric Highlands, the UK’s largest rewilding landscape.

The ocean was calm when the morning light broke across the swells, and the photographer on the deck was still warming his hands on a forgotten cup of coffee. Then something sliced through the surface in a perfect black and white arc.

For the first time in more than one hundred years, Chinook salmon are swimming again in the Chiloquin Basin of southern Oregon, an event that has brought celebration, awe, and a profound sense of renewal to the Klamath Tribes.

Spain has taken a significant leap in marine conservation by designating six new marine zones as protected areas, expanding safeguards across more than seventeen thousand square kilometres of its seas.