Illegal Wildlife Trafficking: A New GIJN Guide

Support The Global Investigative Journalism Network on Wildlife Trafficking, attend the webinar on Wildlife Crimes. Great article by Toby McIntosh.

The Evolution of Plant Music

Suzanne Simard, forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia has been studying old trees in forest ecosystems and how … More

Ancient Indigenous forest gardens still yield bounty 150 years later

Originally planted with a rich array of edible and medicinal flora for people to use, forest gardens are now a source of food for animals and pollinators. While human activities, such as industrial land management, are often seen as being harmful to biodiversity, their study shows how Indigenous practices have benefited the health and resilience of forest ecosystems in the long-term, the researchers say.

The Rainbow Serpent

The rainbow serpent, the white-lipped python is an iridescent snake. AS FAR AS heads go, this is an impressive one. … More

Mother Trees’ Are Intelligent: They Learn and Remember, Ecologist Suzanne Simard says they need our help to survive

‘Mother Trees’ Are Intelligent: They Learn and Remember Few researchers have had the pop culture impact of Suzanne Simard. The … More

Only 19% of Earth’s land is still ‘wild’

The paper “debunks an important myth” in conservation circles, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology aerospace engineer Danielle Wood, who studies technology and international development but was not involved with the new work. By offering a long-term look at humans’ impact on the planet, the study reveals that it’s not people per se that send biodiversity on a downward spiral, but it’s instead the overexploitation of resources, she explains. If their practices are sustainable, “humans don’t have to be removed,” to save the world’s species.